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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Purchase a signed copy or a piece of alabaster from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday at High Country Gems and Minerals, 311 8th St. in Glenwood Springs. Garfield County native Jeremy Russell’s story is one of ...

History is alive for Vincent Kaydahzinne. He recalls creating a mother-daughter sculpture from an alabaster stone. Tradition had it that a mother and child had once lived near where he found the stone ...

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 ...

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 ...

These 3 'Nottingham' alabaster carvings should have been destroyed during the Reformation but instead they were hiddenAlabaster carving was a thriving industry in Nottingham 600 years ago. Newly ...

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 ...

The statue, which dates back to around 1348, likely depicts John de Belton, a priest who died of the Black Death. Courtesy of St. Wilfrid’s via Facebook Four years ago, Derbyshire resident Anne ...