For clues about how this push may play out, look to “The Puritan” — the famous bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens — and the ninth great-grandfather of The Times’ art critic.

The bronze he found was sold for 3.1 million euros ($ 3.2 million) at an auction house in the city of Orleans south of Paris, an AFP reporter there said. It had been estimated at 1.5 to 2 million ...

but we are curious how well you know the world of sculptures & statues. This time, we’re challenging you to name these iconic masterpieces in stone, bronze, and marble.

A “very valuable” bronze sculpture worth £60,000 has been stolen from the garden of a world-renowned artist who said she was “upset” at the lack of progress in the investigation.

A version of Claudel's famous bronze sculpture "L'Age mur" ("The Mature Age") was found by chance in an uninhabited flat, in Paris on 16 December, 2024.