stone carving
Chiseled rock art
Stone carving is the art or process of shaping stone by cutting, chipping, or grinding to create sculpture, architectural decoration, or inscriptions.
The term covers both the activity and its products: ancient stone carvings discovered at the site, She studied stone carving in Italy.
Stone carvers work in marble, granite, limestone, and other materials using chisels, hammers, and abrasives.
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- chiselEdged carving implement
- lapidaryWorker of precious stones
- bas-reliefSculpture projecting slightly
petroglyphs · relief sculpture · high relief · intaglio · sarcophagi · sculpture · garden statue · Roman bust · hammer and chisel · rustication · limestone · stele · stonecutting · alabaster · monument · Mount Rushmore · Easter Island · ancient ruins
- art termspainting, sculpture, drawing, portrait, landscape
- sculptural traditionsmarble sculpture, bronze casting, clay modeling, terracotta, metal sculpture
- South Asian artHindu art, Buddhist art, miniature painting, thangka, bronze casting
- stone craftsmarble statues, lapidary
- temple decoraltar cloth, altar piece, guardian statue, incense burner, hanging lantern
- temple sculpturetemple guardian, apsara, lingam, yoni, torana
stone carvingclay modeling
Shaping soft earth artistically
clay sculpting · modeling · building up · papier-mâché · assemblage
stone carvingclay modeling
Shaping soft earth artistically
clay sculpture · soft sculpture · textile art · fiber art · ice sculpture
stone carvingdigital art
Computer-generated visual work
performance art · sound art · video art · light installation · dance