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Statue unveiled in Liverpool to mark Ringo Starr’s 85th birthday - The Beatles drummer shared his annual birthday message of ...
The bot would be a useful addition at other museums, especially for tourists with short attention spans and long itineraries.
Wes Anderson: The Archives is produced by the Design Museum, London, in partnership with Wes Anderson and American Empirical Pictures, and in collaboration with La Cinémathèque française.
The restoration of Apollo Belvedere, directed by the Vatican Museums’ Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, faced several challenges before its official unveiling on Oct. 15, including the ...
The restoration of Apollo Belvedere faced several challenges before its official unveiling on Oct. 15, including the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Apollo Belvedere is displayed at the Pio ...
The marble statue of "Apollo Belvedere" at the Vatican Museum on its return on display following its restoration, at the Vatican, on October 15, 2024. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images.
By the time the museum acquired the 7-foot-tall (2.1 meters) statue in 1972, all that was left was the body — but archival photographs showed the sculpted woman had a head at least through the ...
In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.
The statue — known in Italy as the “Athlete of Fano,” but named by The Getty Museum as both the “Getty Bronze” and the “Victorious Youth” — is attributed to sculptor Lysippos and ...
Italy has the right to confiscate a life-size bronze statue dating back to the second or third centuries B.C. from the J. Paul Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles, California, where it has been for ...
The statue, a life-sized bronze believed to date from 300-100 B.C., was purchased by the Getty in 1977 after being pulled from the sea by Italian fishermen in 1964 and illegally exported.