marble carving
Chiseled white figure
Marble carving is the art or craft of sculpting figures and forms from marble, or a piece produced by this method.
The stone's fine grain allows detailed work, and its translucency gives carved surfaces a lifelike quality prized since antiquity: The museum's collection of Greek marble carvings.
The term covers both the process and the finished object.
- statuesThree-dimensional sculpted likenesses
- human formA person's physical appearance
- undercuttingCharging less than rivals
- CarraraTuscan marble town
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
veining · chisel · mallet · rasp · master carvers · Michelangelo · bust · Greek antiquity · polishing · bas-relief · classical sculpture · mythological figures · Renaissance art · finishing · torso · sanding · finishing touches · smooth surface
- fine artsfine art, fine arts, painting, visual arts, sculpture
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
- ancient craftspottery, mosaics, weaving, carpentry, blacksmithing
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- sculptingclay, modeling, molding, plaster, chiseling
marble carvingbronze casting
Forming objects from melted alloy
clay modeling · metal casting · assemblage · plaster casting · 3D printing
marble carvingice sculpture
Art from frozen water
butter sculpture · food art · chalk drawing · body painting · chalk art
marble carvingpainting
Pigment on canvas
oil painting · watercolor · drawing · digital art · photography