Marble Sculptures
Preface
- Marble is a stone prevalent for sculptures because of its durability and clarity.
- Marble was the choice for many sculptors, such as Phidias, Myron, and Polykleitos.
- The marble will be used for all kinds of sculptures, such as Relief and free-standing.
- The most famous types of marble are Pentelic, Parian, and Carrara marble.
- In Classical antiquity, the closed-grained, olden-toned Pentellic variety was quarried from Mount Pentellicon, located at Attica.
How to Carve a marble Sculpture :
Step 1:
Making a small maquette in wax or clay,
Step 2:
Transferring the tracks to the Marble blocks,
Step 3: (an ancient technique)
Using hammer and point work.
Step 4:
Using other tools such as toothed or claw, rasps, and rifflers.
Step 5:
Polishing the marble is the next step. The surface of the statue must be finished off.
Step 6:
Painting (In the past, a statue was complete once it was painted) .
Famous marble sculptures and statues:
- Neolithic marble sculptures, such as female Figurines
- Archaic Greek marble sculptures such as Kleobis and Biton
- Classical Greek marble sculptures such as Leda and the Swan
- Hellenistic Greek Marble Sculpture such as Dying Gaul
- Roman marble, such as the Portrait Bust of Julius Caesar
- Renaissance Marble Sculpture such as Fonte Gaia
- Mannerist marbles such as the Rape of the Sabine
- Neoclassical and modern sculptures such as Apollo Crowning Himself
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