“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Nestled along Avalanche Creek between Carbondale and Redstone, the Sopris Mine is up and running — finally. After years of legal and regulatory hurdles, the mine isn’t just a site for extracting ...

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 ...