Standing tall under a glass ceiling and bathed in the bright springtime light, Michelangelo’s most famous subject casts a ...

During the French Revolution, the cathedral was used as a storehouse, and statues of biblical kings ... It’s a temple to architecture, housing not just plaster casts of monumental sculpture ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

New restrictions from China’s United Front ban foreign clergy from presiding over religious activities for Chinese people without the invitation of the Chinese government, severely limiting ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a ... laurel leaves – often used for purifying and blessing religious spaces by dispersing the smoke from ceremonial incense ...

New restrictions from China’s United Front ban foreign clergy from presiding over religious activities for ... St. Francis Xavier statue in front St. Joseph Cathedral in Beijing; St. Francis ...

The city said it would provide stewards for its statue of the folk song figure — and repair its bust, which has been damaged by excessive touching. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London In song ...

It is even more unusual to find reliefs of priestesses holding their religious objects.” The statue of the woman “provides new evidence of the importance of the cult in the city”.