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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. Guennol Stargazer - Wikipedia

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    The Guennol Stargazer was placed for sale at auction by its owner, Michael Steinhardt, at Christie's in 2017. [6] Despite attempts to halt the sale by the Turkish government, including the filing of a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Steinhardt and Christie's, the auction occurred, and the sculpture sold for $14.4 million.

  4. Category:Marble sculptures - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Marble sculptures" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Old Drunkard; P. Perseus and the Gorgon; Pietà (Michelangelo)

  5. Getty kouros - Wikipedia

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    The Getty Kouros. The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. [1] The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, in 1985 for ten million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986.

  6. Temple ruins on uninhabited Greek island reveal 2,400-year ...

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    The marble statue was about 2,480 years old and depicted a male figure standing upright, a type of statue known as a kouros, archaeologists said. A photo shows the carved figure’s upper body and ...

  7. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine, FSA Scot (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɪ n / EL-ghin; 20 July 1766 – 14 November 1841), often known as Lord Elgin, was a Scottish nobleman, diplomat, and collector, known primarily for the controversial procurement of marble sculptures (known as the Elgin Marbles) from the Parthenon and other structures on the Acropolis of Athens.

  8. Statues of the National Statuary Hall Collection - Wikipedia

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    Several sculptors have created multiple statues for the collection, the most prolific being Charles Henry Niehaus who sculpted eight statues currently and formerly in the collection. The US states that sent the statues, not Congress nor the Architect of the Capitol, are authorized to remove them. Kansas was the first state to replace a statue ...

  9. The Greek Slave - Wikipedia

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    The Greek Slave is a marble sculpture by the American sculptor Hiram Powers.It was one of the best-known and critically acclaimed American artworks of the nineteenth century, [1] and is among the most popular American sculptures ever. [2]

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