Nintendo's Mario and Homer's Odysseus have more in common than you might think.

Besides the infamous Number Nine, that is.

Keeping cozy in a countryside escape, through the ages.

Demons and artists, it seems, pull from the same bag of tricks. They take ordinary matter and transform it into something more wondrous, more terrifying.

Huge monuments to national pride are regaining popularity. One scholar suggests this might also indicate a larger cultural shift.

The original inspiration for the now-ubiquitous equestrian statue, a classical bronze of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, was almost melted down and lost forever.

The author of Frankenstein always saw love and death as connected. She visited the cemetery to commune with her dead mother. And with her lover.

Every statue tells a story, often long forgotten. San Francisco's Pioneer Mother Monument in Golden Gate Park was greeted with disappointed by the woman who originated it.

Since the 16th century, anonymous authors have been posting provocative political messages on or near these Roman statues.

No one could have predicted Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s turn to the bizarre.

The 15th century marble statue of Adam, by Venetian sculptor Tullio Lombardo has been restored by the Metropolitan Museum.

Coade stone was all the rage in late eighteenth-century architecture, and a mother-and-daughter team was behind it all.

Lord Elgin went beyond his original mandate, amassing a vast store of treasures, one scholar notes.

Butter sculpture is a fixture of American state fairs. The practice of using food as a medium for art dates back centuries.