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Marbleizing (also spelt marbleising [1]) or faux marbling is the preparation and finishing of a surface to imitate the appearance of polished marble.It is typically used in buildings where the cost or weight of genuine marble would be prohibitive.
Faux painting became popular in classical times in the forms of faux marble, faux wood, and trompe-l'œil murals. Artists would apprentice for 10 years or more with a master faux painter before working on their own. Great recognition was awarded to artists who could actually trick viewers into believing their work was the real thing.
The Marble Boat, a lakeside pavilion in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China The Taj Mahal is clad entirely in marble. The word "marble" derives from the Ancient Greek μάρμαρον (mármaron), [3] from μάρμαρος (mármaros), "crystalline rock, shining stone", [4] [5] perhaps from the verb μαρμαίρω (marmaírō), "to flash ...
Sample sheets, 2016 Carrara marble , or Luna marble ( marmor lunense ) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of ...
A sheet of flexible stone veneer illustrating its flexible nature Wall application A sheet of flexible stone veneer being cut and bent. Flexible stone veneer is made from a thin layer of stone stripped or peeled from a metamorphic stone marble chips or slab, rather than cutting from a solid stone or precast composite material.
A check sheet is a form (document) used to collect data in real time at the location where the data is generated. The data it captures can be quantitative or qualitative. When the information is quantitative, the check sheet is sometimes called a tally sheet. [1] The check sheet is one of the so-called Seven Basic Tools of Quality Control. [2]
The portal to the Bok Tower shows blue-and-white Creole marble as well as the pink Etowah marble Creole marble sample. Creole marble, also called Georgia creole or Georgia marble, is a marble from quarries in Pickens County, Georgia, United States. [1] It is coarse-grained, displays a white or gray background while veins or clouds are black or ...
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 ...