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  2. 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 ...

  3. David (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Veiled Christ - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Jesus's head and veil. Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino.It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero, in Naples, Italy.

  5. The Rape of Proserpina - Wikipedia

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    Head of Proserpina, Cleveland Museum of Art. The Rape of Proserpina is made of high-quality Carrara marble, which was hard to find in large blocks and highly coveted by 17th-century sculptors. [28] Marble is a very heavy material, but Proserpina is held aloft with apparent ease, and her arm stretches out away from the rest of the group.

  6. Apollo Belvedere - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) [1] is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity.. The work has been dated to mid-way through the 2nd century A.D. and is considered to be a Roman copy of an original bronze statue created between 330 and 320 B.C. by the Greek sculptor Leochares. [2]

  7. David (Bernini) - Wikipedia

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    David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese. It was completed in the course of eight months from 1623 to 1624.

  8. Marble Sculpture Bought for $6 and Used as Doorstop Could ...

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    A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...

  9. The Veiled Virgin - Wikipedia

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    The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble

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