Each marble column was constructed of a monolith main shaft made of one complete piece of marble measuring almost seven meters and alone weighing about 7.5 tons, a lower pedestal and a capital on ...

JERUSALEM — Moving a 4.7-ton piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that was once part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, making sure it is ...

But The Column, a short fim by the Albanian artist Adrian Paci, is the first time we’ve ever been able to bear witness to the entire process.Paci hired a group of Chinese craftsman to complete a ...

Bob Guccione’s Mansion Had Marble Columns With His Face Carved Into Them By Jessica Pressler , a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007.

A repatriated marble column on display in Zhengjue Temple in Yuanmingyuan. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] After a long odyssey overseas, seven marble columns from the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or ...

A marble column from Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, is on display at Zhengjue Temple of Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park in Beijing on Friday. An exhibition displaying all seven marble columns ...

Caption 2: Part of an unfinished fluted marble column rests on a marble slab. Many other slabs are scattered throughout the park as well as a few still-standing marble walls and columns. Courtesy ...