In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some of the world ... of the day praised the Corcoran Gallery of Art as ...

At the Louvre’s Sculpture Casting Atelier, a separate team of artisans create moulages—molds—that replicate marble statues in plaster or resin. The Louvre doesn’t widely advertise the two ...

Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in ...

These are marble sculptures that were removed from the Acropolis ... the "Mona Lisa" in half and you would have half of it at the Louvre and half of it at the British Museum, do you think your ...

The Louvre is joining in the celebration for ... benches and Carrara marble statues from the royal gardens of the Marly palace. That was a former getaway spot for Louis XIV, where he’d come ...

120 x 70 x 60 cm. (47.2 x 27.6 x 23.6 in.) ...

Since its rediscovery on the island of Milos in 1820, the statue has been prominently displayed at the Louvre, where it has ... of Mali—inhabits Corine. The marble bust was crafted by French ...

In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some ... Corcoran Gallery of Art as “Louvre-like” and an “edifice ...