Example :
marble -
A type of stone traditionally
used in sculpture and architecture.
A metamorphic rock (metamorphosed
calcite or dolomite), finely grained, dense, with a nondirectional
structure, capable of taking
a high polish, and often
irregularly veined and colored by
impurities. White marble has been quarried in Greece, Italy, Turkey,
India, China, and the USA. Among the most renowned sources has
been the quarries of Carrara in the Apuan Alps of Italy. Confusingly,
the name marble is sometimes used to refer to any stone that takes
a polish, although such stones may include alabasters, granites,
and serpentines, as well
as true marbles.Mottling or streaking that resembles the veined texture of marble is called marbling.
Examples of works in marble:
Greece, Cyclades, about 2500 BCE, Male Harp Player, marble, 14.1 x 3.7 x 11 inches (35.8 x 9.5 x 28 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA. See Cycladic art.
Greece, Grave stele of a little girl with doves, c. 450-440 BCE, Parian marble relief, height 31 1/2 inches (80.01 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Italy, Ostia, 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE, The Hope Athena, marble, height 86 inches (218.4 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Laocoön and his Sons, Roman copy of a Hellenistic original from c. 200 BCE, marble, height 1.84 m, Vatican. Trojan priest Laocoön and his two sons are attacked at an altar by giant serpents. Pliny said it was the work of three sculptors from Rhodes, Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros. The date of the Laocoön is controversial, some scholars arguing for the late second century BCE, others for c. 50 BCE.
Jagaddeva (Indian, active about mid-12th century), The Goddess Sarasvati, 1153, marble, 47 1/4 x 19 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (120.2 x 50.2 x 29.7 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sarasvati is the Jain goddess of knowledge, learning, and music. Also see Hindu art.
Donatello (Italian, 1386-1466), Pazzi Madonna, c. 1422, marble, 74.5 x 69.5 cm, Bodemuseum, Berlin. See a Donatello site [text in Italian].
Francesco Laurana (Italian, c.1430-c.1502), Bust of a Lady, c.1470s, marble, height 18 3/4 inches (46.6 cm), width 18 inches (45.8 cm), diameter of base 9 3/8 inches (23.9 cm), Frick Collection, NY. The Frick has another bust by Laurana, of Beatrice of Aragon, c. 1470s, also white marble. See bust.
Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, 1435-1488), Bust of a Young Woman, marble, height 18 7/8 inches (48 cm), width 19 3/16 inches (48.7 cm), diameter 9 3/8 inches (23.8 cm), Frick Collection, NY.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564), The Bearded Slave, also known as Atlant, 1527-28, marble, height 8 feet 4 3/4 inches (277 cm), width 2 feet 4 3/4 inches, depth 3 feet 1/2 inch, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. This is one of several allegorical figures intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II. See Renaissance.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Crossed-Leg Slave, also known as The Prisoner (Il Prigione - ridestantesi), 1530-1536, marble, height 8 feet 10 1/8 inches (267 cm), width 3 feet 1 3/4 inches, depth 2 feet 5 1/2 inches, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. This another of the allegorical figures intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Victory, 1527-28?, marble, height 8 feet 6 3/4 inches (261 cm), width 2 feet 7 1/8 inches, depth 2 feet 9 inches, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. This another of the allegorical figures intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Moses, 1508-16 and 1542-45, marble, height 7 feet 8 1/2 inches, width of base at front 3 feet 1 1/2 inches, depth of base 3 feet 3 3/4 inches, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. This sculpture is at the base of Pope Julius II's mausoleum. [Detail of the head of Moses. Moses's horns derive from a long tradition in which horns were symbolic of divinity in Near Eastern and Nordic cultures.]
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Crouching Boy, c.1530-1534, marble, height 54 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. See nude.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire, marble, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. The plaster version of this sculpture is owned by the Phoenix, Art Museum, AZ.
John Deare (English, 1759-98, active in Italy), Judgment of Jupiter, 1786-87, marble relief, 58 1/4 x 117 1/4 inches (148 x 297.8 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Hiram Powers (American, 1805-1873 ), Bust of George Washington, 1850's, marble, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. See bust.
Chester French (American, 1850-1931), Abraham Lincoln, 1920, marble, height 19 feet, Washington, DC. This sculpture is at the center of the
Constantin Brancusi (French, born Romania, 1876-1957), Bird in Space, 1923, marble, (with base) 56 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (144.1 x 16.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Also see acrolith, colossus and colossal, encaustic, incrustation, limestone, mosaic, quarry, sincere, and statue.
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