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Daleti marble, Western Welega: white, white with grey veins and other colours [1] Enda Tikurir marble, Western Tigray. Newi marble, Central Tigray. Akmara marble, Central Tigray. Dichinamo marble, Western Tigray.
Giallo antico from the Domus Tiberiana, Palatine hill, Rome. Giallo antico (antique yellow) is a precious yellow marble used first by the ancient Africans and later by the ancient Romans (which they called marmor numidicum (marble of Numidia) [1] It was one of the marbles most favoured by the Romans because of its beautiful yellow colour ...
David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1] [2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo.With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.
Sivec®, or Bianco Sivec, is the registered name for this fine-grained white dolomitic marble. Nowadays, Sivec has been selected to give the characteristic, exclusive white appearance in many large well-known projects including hotels, palaces, commercial buildings, etc.
White Carrara marble (with grey veins): fluted pilasters; white "bianco purissimo" Carrara marble: capitals and friezes; statuario marble: altar steps; white and grey bardiglio marble: pavement; Egyptian "rosso di Syene" granite: monolith entrance step; africano and rosso antico marble: frames of the niches; rosso di Numidia: shells of the ...
Sixth century verde antico Roman columns in Byzantium's Hagia Sophia Verd antique (obsolete French , from Italian , verde antico , "ancient green"), also called verde antique , marmor thessalicum , or Ophite , is a serpentinite breccia [ 1 ] popular since ancient times as a decorative facing stone.
The room was last paved with gray lava pesto with brick inclusions. A little north of the center of the room is a square arrangement of granite slabs from Egypt, Turkey, the island of Elba, and north Africa. Scholars suggest the larger slabs are Egyptian "granito bianco e nero" (black and white) and "granitello bigio" (gray) from Elba.
The S-type Granya Granite shows the characteristic white feldspars, grey quartz, and black biotite, the highly reflective mineral is muscovite. The S-type Strathbogie Granite crops out in the Strathbogie Ranges of Australia. A hand sample from the Strathbogie Granite has a porphyritic texture with larger crystal of grey quartz, called ...