Medieval Europe’s lost and forgotten alabaster sculpture will be arriving from London to the Princeton University Art Museum as part of the traveling exhibition “Object of Devotion: Medieval English ...

The latest exhibition at the Princeton University Museum of Art is devoted to one of those odd, delicate mediums whose rise and fall from popularity seem to track a moral and political faultline in ...

Alabaster production during the Middle Ages centered on the making and selling of finely decorated, gilded and colored sculpture to churches, nobles, and owners of private chapels. More common ...

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 ...

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 ...

The monumental, 18-ton body of the ancient winged deity will now be reunited with its head, held at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad. A newly-unearthed Assyrian Lamassu (human-headed winged bull) ...

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 ...

The sculpture of the Assyrian deity Lamassu was commissioned during the reign of King Sargon II, who ruled from 722 to 705 BC. (AFP pic) A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster ...

Alabaster production during the Middle Ages centered on the making and selling of finely decorated, gilded and colored sculpture to churches, nobles, and owners of private chapels. More common ...

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 ...