Jes Fan’s 2018 sculpture “Visible Woman,” which includes 3-D-printed resin casts, is a nonliteral depiction of the human body. Credit... Courtesy of the artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New ...

The perfect human body has the legs of an ostrich, the heart of a dog, and the eyes of an octopus, according to anatomist Alice Roberts. And it’s utterly terrifying.

Kousser said the first and most mundane reason so many statues get beheaded is that the neck is a natural weak point on the human body. When a statue falls after years of being displayed, is ...

There’s a new statue on display at Stockholm’s Science and Technology Museum. From afar, it seems hardly remarkable, a human-shaped swirl of stainless steel clutching an orb.

Leonardo da Vinci was the greatest student of human musculature. He illegally spent countless hours dissecting deceased human bodies in order to comprehend our structure and how the human body works.

A statue of a child holding a ball in his left hand, likely from the end of the 2 nd century B.C., included an inscription written in Etruscan on the body’s right leg.