These statues, often showcased in museums as pristine as white marble forms ... In the Greek sanctuary of Delos, inscriptions reveal detailed records of the perfumes used to maintain the statues ...

Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity. They were painted with a palette that displayed a ...

The Spanish songstress looked like a marble sculpture come to like in the piece, which looked like it was sculptuted onto her body. Its strict, body-hugging silhouette created a lovely hourglass ...

Depicting a bearded man wearing a tunic, the marble statue has adorned one of the Duomo’s 135 spires for two centuries. But decades of harsh weather, pollution and the bombings of World War II ...