1. It is already possible to identify the main characteristics of the School of Aphrodisias, its chronological framework and some aspects of its contribution to ancient sculpture. 2. Along with the Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern China, the Bamyan cliffs represented a treasure-house of ancient sculpture. 3. He went to Columbia to study ancient bronze sculpture, but transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after realizing that such sculpture was most often found in shipwrecks. 4. In late December a leading scholar of ancient Buddhist sculpture, Yang Hong, received a mysterious envelope here in the mail. 5. Russian artists have used holograms to replicate the most ancient sculpture, bringing artistic media full circle. 6. The ancient Mediterranean sculptures that greet visitors to the Beck building served a religious function. 7. The title refers to the ancient sculpture of a slain soldier that the author Craig Lucas saw in a Rome museum. 8. The verdigris skin of some iguanas resembles the patina on an ancient metal sculpture. 9. With virtuosic technical know-how, William Morris makes artifacts of blown glass that simulate animal skulls, prehistoric vessels, ancient sculptures, bones and the like. 10. Two ancient sculptures have been returned to Cambodia after officials at the Honolulu Academy of Arts determined the items were stolen. |