Read More: 100 Women of the ... used to make his statue of David in the early 1500s. It is still stunning now. This is the last piece of the vein of pure white statuary marble from that quarry ...

One of the most significant is a white marble statue of a woman adorned with a ... at just 18 — and is one of history’s most famous female rulers. She is infamously believed to have committed ...

and statues. The island’s quarries were particularly sought after due to the marble’s pure white color, semi-translucence, and fine grain. It even had a name, Parian marble, and it was used in ...

Construction workers have unearthed a white marble head in the historic center ... The impressive piece, which is thought to be part of a statue of a female divinity, was discovered in a ...

Their project also dovetails with recent scholarly efforts to undo the misunderstanding that classical sculpture was typically made of unpainted white marble, a myth of whiteness that some far ...

She braved racism and sexism to become the first Black woman to cover the White ... marble statues of family members and loved ones of Col. Henry G. Wooldridge life, including multiple statues of ...