who commis-sioned four colossal marble statues from him—Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius Fleeing Troy; David; The Rape of Persephone; and Apollo and Daphne. These established Bernini, in his early ...

A marble statuette of Venus (Aphrodite ... the upper part of her torso is notably blank and featureless. Bronze statue of Apollo dating to the first century AD This may be due to losses in ...

The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

In celebration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday , we take a look at the stunning properties used in film and TV adaptation you ...

Even in ancient times, ancient Greece was recognized as a leader in culture, philosophy, and politics. When the Romans ...

The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year ...

Gradually, the profile of the sculpted marble began to suggest the shape ... possibly Jupiter, Apollo, Serapis, or even a philosopher. Researchers suppose that the head may have been reused ...

"The modern PEBBLE is proposed as a sculpture, as it were ... converted into a neo-classical "Garden Temple", dedicated "To Apollo His Muses His Missiles His Music". It was the cause of a long ...

The Strangford Apollo is an ancient Greek sculpture of a nude boy, with the arms and lower legs missing. It dates to around 490 BC, making it one of the latest examples of the kouros type of statue, ...

A video of an AI robot sculpting a marble statue has left the internet fuming, with people asking why we are not using AI to find cures for diseases. The Studio Ghibli trend took over the internet ...