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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...
Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
It has taken years to decide the fate of the Bouchardon Bust, which was made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon in the early ...
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Donatello Masterpiece Identified After Decades in Storage
Experts claim a marble bust, found in a small Slovak museum and once used as a toy, is by Renaissance master sculptor ...
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Marble bust used to prop up an old shed is actually worth £2,500,000
A council is preparing to sell a valuable marble bust worth £2.5 million after it was found propping up a garden shed and bought for just £5. The sculpture of Sir John Gordon was made by French ...
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Luxembourger given suspended sentence for stealing Hercules bust
A 57-year-old Luxembourg man was given a nine-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday for stealing a statue of Hercules ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The over life-size white marble bust of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1884, on a pillar near to the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is by the ...