Buddhist soft power: Looking for the middle path
India is intensifying efforts to highlight its Buddhist heritage, targeting tourism and global influence. The government is ...
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Letters, flowers and photographs left at Australian War Memorial sculpture pay tribute to veterans and their families
These words are taken from letters left at the Australian War Memorial's For Every Drop Shed in Anguish sculpture. The sculpture, designed to represent the impact of service on families ...
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The Artists Finding New Ways to Depict the Human Body
At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest media. By Zoë Lescaze IT’S A CONFUSING time to have a body ...
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Archaeologists Unearthed Five Lost Statues From Remains of the Roman Empire’s Sculpture Capital
Perga’s was once a key sculpture-producing location for the entire Roman Empire. The city of Perga was renowned throughout the Roman Empire for its skilled laborers’ production of marble ...
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Palazzo lobby sculpture on Las Vegas Strip going to public auction Thursday
It’s probably a no-go. The sculpture is two stories tall, elevated on a 14-foot column that comes through an opening in the lobby floor. The sculpture itself is 12 feet tall. The women are sculpted in ...
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Lost Claudel sculpture found in Paris flat fetches $3 million at auction
The sculpture, which exists in several copies, depicts an elderly woman dragging an ageing man away, while a young woman on her knees implores him. Art historians have seen in "The Implorer" a ...