Carrara is an Italian type of this material popular with sculptors
513017
Carrara marble - Wikipedia  Carrara marble is a type of white or blue-grey marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It is quarried in the city of Carrara located in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana, the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy.
513018
Marble Sculpture: Characteristics, Types, History  Characteristics, Types, Carving Technique, History, Famous Statues. ... types of marble stone employed in sculpture are Pentelic, Parian and Carrara marble. ... It was a popular material in Italian Renaissance sculpture and the favourite of the...
513019
Carrara Marble Sculptures - 122 For Sale at 1stdibs  122 results ... Shop carrara marble sculptures and other carrara marble sculptures from the ... Italian Carrara Marble Bust of Beethoven on Neoclassical Pedestal.
513020
Sculpting in Tuscany - A Guide - Sculpture.org  During three days in Carrara and four in Pietrasanta, I visited ten studios (laboratori di .... You can get a range of prices per type of material. ... For additional information about sculpting and workshops in Italy, refer to the May/June 1997 .... director History: This well-known studio was founded 40 years ago by Sem Ghelardini...
513021
Carrara is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in ...  Carrara is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and ... Carrara marble, province of Massa and Carrara , Tuscany region Italy ...... is used to undercut the marble before wire saws completely dislodge the block material.
574081
Tuscany's Famous Marble Quarries | Katharina's Italy - Trust & Travel  Jan 9, 2014 ... Tuscany's Famous Marble Quarries ... I love marble, and the one that comes from the quarries of Carrara, a Tuscan town in the ... When we finally reached the marble quarries, I was quite impressed by their size and number,...
84352
Select Art Sculpture: Glossary  Often constructed, it may include found objects (objets trouves) and/or elements ... Bas relief: the lowest degree of relief, in which all the carving lies within the ... Bust: sculpted portrait or representation consisting of head and part of shoulders .... in Italian: unglazed clay dried in the air and baked or fired: usually red to black,...
104791
About our Italian Ceramics and Italian Pottery - Firenze Italian ...  Our handcrafted handpainted Ceramics are type of earthenware made of ... This dazzling colorful Italian earthenware is called Majolica (also known as Maiolica or Maioliche) and was named by the Italians after the Spanish island of Majorca.
238835
Alabaster - Wikipedia  Alabaster is a name used in two different fields with two different meanings. This article ... The purest alabaster is a snow-white material of fine uniform grain, but it often ... to produce an opacity suggestive of true marble, the statues are immersed in a ... Calcite alabaster, harder than the gypsum variety, was the kind primarily...
128413
Pitti Palace Museums&Boboli Gardens:Silver Museum ... - Florence  The Pitti Palace houses important collections of paintings and sculpture, ... There are works by Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio and many others. ... combined ticket for Museo degli Argenti, Costume Gallery, Porcelain museum and Bardini Gardens ... from Florentine workmanship to other schools and countries and include rock...
5199
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - Arte Divine  In Florence: The David; Tomb of Pope Julius II & the Sistine Chapel ... Michelangelo stayed in Settignano until he was about ten years old, returning ..... While in Carrara Michelangelo saw for the first time the marble quarries that were to .... work of a sculptor, not only because of the draping of the material on the holy family...
216704
Donatello's David  ItalianRenaissance.org  1440-1460, bronze ... The work was commissioned by Cosimo de'Medici for the Palazzo Medici, ... The idea of the life-sized nude sculpture-in-the-round evidently took some time to sink in and become an acceptable statue type. ... The most famous section of the Sistine Chapel ceiling is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.
425283
School of Arts and Humanities: The Piccirilli Studio: Public Sculpture ...  American public sculpture began to flourish in the late 19th century. ... Prior to the Piccirilli studio, sculptors like French sent plaster models to Italy to be carved in stone. ... several other large scale projects for Daniel Chester French, including: ... The 60-foot monument consists of ten marble figures at the base and a gilded...
315339
Detail from Sistine Madonna -- 1513-14 -- Raphael -- Italian - Pinterest  Detail from Sistine Madonna -- 1513-14 -- Raphael -- Italian - ... I like this because it's basic and there is not a lot going today. ... Artist Charles White has painted a lily pad covered, slow moving creek with a bridge .... Michelangelo ...... Famous artist .... A survey of current and recent art exhibitions around the world, organized...
260561
Free Flashcards about SCULPTURE - StudyStack  IN 1912 HE BEGAN CREATING ABSTRACT SCULPTURES OF MAIASTRA, A BIRD IN ROMANIAN LEGENDS, BRANCUSI. STANDING ON THE BANKS OF...
575601
J! Archive - Show #3408, aired 1999-06-02  As Garibaldi's followers were known as Redshirts, Mussolini's devotees were called ... This word well known to sculpture lovers can be translated as "mercy" or...
69107
Care of Alabaster - National Park Service  stone, has been prized for thousands of years. It is similar to marble, and the two stones are often confused. ... The smooth, translucent appearance of alabaster ... variety of color and veining seen in various types ... white marble. ... grained form of the mineral gypsum (calcium ... translucent objects such as vases, lamps, and.
549279
Art Column  Last May, a bronze sculpture of Danaide by Constantin Brancusi made a historical sale record at US$18 million, surpassing the US$14.3 million record set by ... performed very well in the market, setting several new auction records. ... of a well-known artist, the prices for sculpture works are generally lower than oil paintings.
208237
Marble - Wikipedia  Marble in Carrara marble quarry, Italy. The Taj Mahal is entirely clad in marble. Marble is a metamorphic rock that may be foliated or non-foliated, composed of recrystallized ... Folded and weathered marble at General Carrera Lake, Chile ... the original Greeksee Persian and Irish marmar, Spanish mrmol, Italian marmo,...
571424
Art History at Loggia | Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)  The marble statue known as the Aphrodite of Melos is one of the most recognizable works of art from the ancient world. Also referred to as Venus de Milo (Venus...
404460
Italy Euro Coins - Fleur de Coin  Italian euro coins have a design unique to each denomination, though there is a common ... had already decided it would sport the Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci. .... 2 euro coins with artificial colors; BU sets - official blisters issued in italy.