Not seen in public since 1952, the unique alabaster carving is expected to fetch up to £3m at auction Over the centuries, painters and sculptors have exchanged works with one another, usually as a ...

The English Reformation of the 1530s wasn’t just an upheaval of the country’s spirituality as the Church of England severed its Catholic ties; it disrupted whole industries. One was the alabaster ...

“When you hit it (with a flat hammer), it should ring,” said Laurie White during a demonstration on alabaster carving at the Loveland Museum/Gallery on Sunday. She was demonstrating how to find a ...

An artisan works on an alabaster artwork at a workshop in Luxor, Egypt, on Jan. 10, 2025. Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a ...

When it comes to carving alabaster, there are two approaches: make a mock-up or ask the stone what it wants to be. Loveland artist Laurie White combines both approaches, she told her six students ...

Christopher Howse has spent two years visiting high streets all over England. He comments on uses and abuses of the English language and writes a weekly column on the human face of religion in history ...

In the late 19th century, Southern California attracted misfits, idealists, and entrepreneurs with few ties to anyone or anything. Swamis, spiritualists, and other self-proclaimed religious ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...

For many anglophone readers, alabaster—a crystalline form of gypsum—is synonymous with English late medieval sculpture, a misapprehension reinforced by the entry on the subject in the otherwise ...

Seven alabaster carvings discovered during restoration work at St. Marie's Roman Catholic Cathedral had not been seen for 42 years Seven rare 15th Century alabaster carvings have been discovered ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into ...