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  2. Stone sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Boundary wall featuring a dry stone sculpture, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK Ancient Egyptian triple portrait in greywacke, a very hard sandstone that takes a fine polish. Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself, beginning perhaps with incised images on cave walls. [1]

  3. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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    This is a geographical list of natural stone used for decorative purposes in construction and monumental sculpture produced in various countries. The dimension-stone industry classifies stone based on appearance and hardness as either "granite", "marble" or "slate".

  4. Stone carving - Wikipedia

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    Stone carving is one of the processes which may be used by an artist when creating a sculpture. The term also refers to the activity of masons in dressing stone blocks for use in architecture , building or civil engineering .

  5. Stonemasonry - Wikipedia

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    PT stone has been used in both vertical columns (posts), and in horizontal beams (lintels). It has also been used in more unusual engineering applications: arch stabilization, flexible foot bridges, and cantilevered sculptures. Tensioned stone has a close affiliation with massive precut stone as two central techniques of modern stonemasonry.

  6. Hardstone carving - Wikipedia

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    The definition in this context of "hardstone" is unscientific and not very rigid, but excludes "soft" stones such as soapstone (steatite) and minerals such as alabaster, both widely used for carving, as well as typical stones for building and monumental sculpture, such as marble and other types of limestone, and sandstone. These are typically ...

  7. Alabaster - Wikipedia

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    Calcite alabaster: The tomb of Tutankhamun (d. 1323 BC) contained a practical objet d’art, a cosmetics jar made of Egyptian alabaster, which features a lid surmounted by a lioness (goddess Bast). Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder.

  8. Sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.

  9. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...

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