Once again the pursuit of the perfect selfie by a dumb tourist has resulted in extensive damage to a priceless work of art. There have been numerous reports of clumsy people ruining paintings and ...

An Italian marble sculpture of William Pitt the Younger as the Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents Fox and North by Pieratoni (called ’Sposino’), c.1790 Kim Sajet The story of the infant Hercules ...

The conservation work, funded by the Patrons of the Vatican Museums, will cost around $113,588. The statue was uncovered in Rome in 1964 and pulled from the earth with the help of a wooden scaffold.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993. A wooden ship's figurehead depicting the head and torso of Hercules with a lion skin draped over his back. The head of the lion skin rests on Hercules' ...

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National Museum of American Art, 1990. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006. (Incised top of base:) P. MANSHIP signed The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the ...