Sculpture

The luxurious Villa of the Papyri was revealed by excavators in the 18th Century – and its many treasures are now on display in Los Angeles. Daisy Dunn takes a look.

Cheeky trolls that tower over passers-by can be found in the Danish wilds. Constructed using wood found around the city, the sculptor behind them wants to bring people into nature.

Camille Claudel was Auguste Rodin’s lover, muse and most gifted pupil. Her sad life belies a formidable talent, writes Fisun Güner.

The monument was ‘finished’ in 1941 when the project ran out of money. The man who oversaw its creation was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, writes Jonathan Glancey.

It is known as one of art’s most popular images of sexual love, but Auguste Rodin’s sculpture of two lovers has a tangled – and controversial – history, writes Alastair Sooke.

Europe’s great palaces have always been stuffed full of art – but usually dusty canvases and sculptures rather than contemporary works. Now this is changing, writes Aindrea Emelife.

Anthony Caro is just one artist whose dream of a gargantuan sculpture was never realised. Alastair Sooke looks at vast works that never were – but which can live in our imaginations.

We think of the Greeks as the orderly people who gave us drama, democracy and philosophy. But they had a dark side – revealed by the monsters in their art.