Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. After two ...
Carrara, Italy — A remarkable innovation is changing the way timeless art is created. For centuries, Italy's world-famous Carrara marble has been used to make some of the most iconic sculptures in ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MARBLE — Their faces ghostly white, the sculptors carefully conjure their visions from blocks of stone. With screaming machines, the art appears. An ocean ...
I carved a sculpture out of Calacatta Marble and epoxy for the first time, creating a female torso. This piece, inspired by Roman sculptor greats, represents a significant challenge in my sculpting ...
MARBLE — More than five decades ago, Palisade resident Brann Johnson was a young man taking a sculpting class, and created a small clay figure of a reclining female nude. Then he got busy with other ...
Nestled high in the Colorado Rockies, the annual MARBLE/marble Stone Carving Symposium has drawn sculptors, both professional and aspiring, for decades. It took around a decade for that seed to ...
MERINO, Colo. — An artist from northeast Colorado is creating stunning statues from large blocks of marble. Bradford Rhea gained fame along the eastern Plains by carving tree sculptures around the ...
Using the same marble found in Renaissance masterpieces, a team of robots is accepting commissions. Their owners say tech is essential to Italy’s artistic future. By Emma Bubola CARRARA, Italy — For ...
As soft and luxurious as this pillow looks, hopping into bed and laying your head down on it will probably give you a headache. Norwegian sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås is renowned for his ...
This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 10, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. In 1497, an ambitious 22-year-old hiked up to the quarries above the Italian town of ...
We’ll visit the studio of a modern-day marble sculptor in Florence. Whether in ancient times or in modern times, sculpting with marble is essentially the same process, as demonstrated in this visit ...
Marble held profound significance in Greek and Roman architecture due to its abundance, luminous surfaces, and subtle veining. Its durability ensured structures' longevity, while its cultural ...