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It’s among the largest collections of Michelangelo sculptures ever shown. But there’s a catch
The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo Imperfect,” including a new set of ‘identical’ 3D-printed works made by ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...
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Where Greek Masterpieces Began: Efforts to Preserve Paros’ Famed Marble Quarries
The neglected marble quarries of Paros which centuries ago produced most of the sculptural masterpieces of ancient Greece are ...
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Inside Italy's Carrara marble mountains worth $1 billion
"When you make a sculpture some materials ... Instead the Carrara marble has all those characteristics. Then it's a pretty uniform white. It has a medium hardness. It's not too hard and not ...
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Statues in ancient Greece, Rome were colorful — and perfumed
The white marble of "Laocoön and His Sons" would have ... It featured more than 100 sculpture replicas painted in bright hues based on ideas of what the originals might have looked like; modern ...
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This ongoing exhibition in Kishangarh, Rajasthan reimagines marble sculpture and how!
Magesh R’s sculpture, The Monarch, mirrors the regality of the grey-white Lippizaner stallions of Vienna’s Spanish Riding School. Crafted from Turkish marble, the sculpture captures the ...
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It’s among the largest collections of Michelangelo sculptures ever shown. But there’s a catch
Though it’s not the first time a Michelangelo sculpture has been 3D printed ... poses despite being rendered in solid white Carrara marble. At Factum Arte’s studio, the team didn’t ...