“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I am the eighth generation here,” says Ahmed Ali Mohammed Elhofni, standing amid pale stone dust in his family-owned alabaster factory. “My family has been making alabaster pieces since the late ...

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 ...