marble carvings
Chiseled white figures
Marble carvings are sculptures or decorative works shaped from marble by cutting, chipping, and polishing the stone.
The term covers everything from ancient Greek statuary to modern architectural ornament.
Marble's fine grain allows detailed work, making it prized for figures and reliefs: The museum's collection includes marble carvings from the Renaissance.
- Greek sculptureAncient carved marble figures
- ancient GreeceClassical Mediterranean civilization
- Renaissance artEuropean cultural rebirth's visual output
- chiselingCutting with edged tool
- bas-reliefSculpture projecting slightly
veining · detail · busts · polishing · metamorphic rock · mallet · smooth · Hellenistic · Donatello · rasping · Venus de Milo · calcite · high relief · alabaster · sanding · torso · figure study · Roman architecture
- inscriptionsinscription, epitaph, ancient inscriptions, stone inscriptions, gravestone
- war reliefsbas-relief, bas-reliefs, friezes, battle scenes, triumphal arches
- Jain art
- Jain temples
marble carvingsice sculptures
Art carved from frozen water
bronze sculptures · terracotta figures · metal sculptures · wax figures · ceramic sculptures
marble carvingsclay modeling
Shaping soft earth artistically
paintings · drawings · digital art · photography · textile art
marble carvingsice sculptures
Art carved from frozen water
snow sculptures · butter sculptures · performance art · food art · street art