Mark Oprea is a staff writer at Scene. For the past seven years, he's covered Cleveland as a freelance journalist, and has ...

Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, though not altogether headless. Despite no cranium on the Greek hero, the ...

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Marble was expensive. Bernini's portrait of Costanza is thought to be the first uncommissioned bust in art history made by the sculptor for his own enjoyment. In a career that continued until ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Smith Archive / Alamy In antiquity, Roman enslaved workers, free men and convicts removed marble from these mountains ... “Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of ...

The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo Imperfect,” including a new set of ‘identical’ 3D-printed works made by ...

An incredible thrift store find has left the internet amazed after a woman stumbled on a rare 19th century marble statue for just $3. South Florida resident and antique enthusiast Ali Noble ...

In a place of honor was a life-size marble statue of the Greek god Pan with a wicked expression, a forked beard, and an 8-inch erect penis leaning left. The cardinal, it appears, built a pillared ...