CT museum’s centuries-old ‘Venus’ spouts water again, latest in journey that’s taken her 5,000 miles
The hushed voices of visitors to Avery Court at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford now have a new backdrop: the playful splashing of water. The fountain at the foot of the Italian ...
In a rare meeting between the classical and the contemporary, Gagosian’s Paris gallery has staged a show pairing an ancient Roman sculpture with work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The sculpture of the ...
The 445-year-old marble has journeyed far, lost fingers and been buried. Now, with help from TEFAF, the goddess of love has been restored to glory. By Ted Loos Reporting from Hartford, Conn. It was ...
Whatever the many functions of these Venus statues represent, their aesthetic technition is undeniably evident. Whether autoletic, symbolic, metaphoric, erotic, fetishistic, religious, or shamanistic, ...
The Hercules statue had been prominently placed in Kew Gardens but it was removed last year.
In October of 1907, the Tanana Valley celebrated “Alaska Day” and an interesting object of Fairbanks art was created around that same time from Fairbanks gold. This igneous History Nugget has been ...
Scattered across the archeological sites of the Eurasian continent, hundreds of female-shaped statues have resurfaced, dating back to more than 40,000 years ago. Colloquially known as “Venus” statues, ...
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