At the Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona, Spain, you can visit a macabre sculpture like no other. The "Kiss of Death" is a striking funerary sculpture that depicts a winged skeleton kissing a man as he ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient stone statue of a Maya death deity, dating back more than ...

Willem Van Swanenburg, “Death and an Arrow About to Strike the Man Down,” plate 4 from ‘Allegory of the Misuse of Worldly Property, after Maarten van Heemskerk,’ (1609), engraving, Dr. and Mrs. E.

“My good son Giacomo, you must promise me to finish the doors of St. Peter’s as soon as possible.” Each time Pope John XXIII posed for a bust during the summer of 1961, he urged Italian Sculptor ...

A life cycle is a series of cultural, religious, community and personal events that represent the total experience from birth through death, and for some, the afterlife. Through the lens of ...

It was a small sculpture of a Greek temple on a lake that caught my attention, a clean glass-and-stone rendering of a ruin. One broken pillar lay across the steps, and its watery crystal reflection ...