A more than 2,000-year-old marble statue of a woman has been found discarded in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece. A ...

In Land of Marble, photographer Alessandro Gandolfi explores the past and future of Italy's striking marble quarries ...

Of the many sculptures created with white marble or stone, this one is pitch black, and shows a man sitting down in contemplation. The man is resting his chin in one of his hand, and looks deep in ...

Allow no one to touch them, for the oil on the skin will discolor the marble. In cleaning ... The light should fall on a statue or bust from such a height as to leave a hair's breadth between ...

Carrara marble is one of the most prestigious ... Think of the Pantheon in Rome or Michelagelo's iconic statue, David. The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany ...

Depicting a bearded man wearing a tunic, the marble statue has adorned one of the Duomo ... before smoothing it with an abrasive stone. In the small backyard of the workshop, the old statues ...