The first time I laid eyes on Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, I let out a sob. I don't know why. I was surrounded by a dense crowd of tourists; the sculpture was set back ...

Your piece (Why do we only worship ‘real’ works of art?, 14 November) refers briefly to Walter Benjamin’s analysis of infinitely reproducible art but doesn’t mention his worry that modern mass ...

Throughout art history, the lines between mimicry, reproduction and forgery have often been blurred. While forgery, defined as passing one’s work off as someone else’s, is fairly easy to differentiate ...

19th-century reproduction of “Apollo Belvedere”; plaster cast from Roman adaptation or copy of bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, ca 330 BCE. The William J. Battle Collection of Plaster ...

The resin-based 3D printer layers ink much like the chocolate and wafer combination seen in Kit-Kat bars MIT CSAIL A new method of multi-layer, custom-ink 3D printing pioneered by the Massachusetts ...

Behind the red-bricked facade and marble friezes of the National Gallery of Denmark, visitors are now able to see nearly all of Michelangelo’s existing sculptures — the “most comprehensive” exhibition ...

The boundary between prestigious museum halls and personal living spaces is rapidly dissolving as famous art reproductions experience a remarkable surge in popularity. What was once the exclusive ...