F or centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

Alison Lapper Pregnant, a white marble sculpture by contemporary artist Marc Quinn, has been chosen to occupy the empty fourth plinth at one of Britain's most famous landmarks. The artist said he ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

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 ...

Colored statues? To us, classical antiquity means white marble. Not so to the Greeks, who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too. The temples that housed them were ...

There are more than 3,400 statues on the Duomo, on which construction began in 1386. They are carved from the dazzling pink-white marble from Candoglia quarry near Lake Maggiore northwest of Milan ...

Perhaps funds were not forthcoming at this time). The life-size white marble statue, shown in the dress of his period and wearing a cloak, was erected by the 3rd Earl of Burlington (Richard Boyle), Dr ...