The original statues of the Christus and the apostles were made of plaster, and are currently inside the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The completed marble Christus was placed inside the Church of ...
This remarkable marble statue of Mithras killing the bull from Apulum includes a unique dedication by its donor, featuring ...
About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...
Tallahassee Students for a Democratic Society held a protest to criticize President-elect Trump's agenda and the FSU ...
Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...
Probably no sonnet has ever meant so much to so many people as the one by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty in ...
The Rolls Royce emblem, dubbed the Spirit of Ecstasy, draws heavily from the Nike of Samothrace, a Hellenistic masterpiece ...
'Water is the principle, the first of all things," said Thales of Miletus, who lived between 624 and 546 BC and is regarded ...
Since then I’ve enjoyed doing stories on immigrants, and I didn’t have to go far for the latest one. Angela Varipatis came to ...
Like many people in the art world, I’m in deep worry—almost mourning—at the election of Donald Trump. He seems to stand for ...
It’s long been believed that Hippocrates, credited as the Father of Medicine, first taught his medical students under a tree ...
Christos Tsirogiannis has made repatriating stolen antiquities his life’s work, he tells BIRN – but it’s often been a ...