Parian Marble Sculptures
These include the parian marble the pentelic marble of attica in which phidias praxiteles and other greek sculptors executed their principal works and the snow white carrara marble used by michelangelo and antonio canova and favoured by modern sculptors the exterior of the national gallery of art in washington read more.
Parian marble sculptures. Early editions of the upper section of the parian marble a appeared in books devoted to physical collections of statues and reliefs as well as of greek and latin inscriptions. For me it has been another voyage an alexandrine sail a new stage of my dialogue with the latypes of the parian marble. Pegylides is a collection of sculptures fifteen prosopa which are moving noiselessly in the paths of kavafi s poetry. The parian chronicle or parian marble latin.
1457 archaeological museum athens statue of a man photo by giovanni dall orto nov 13 2009a jpg 1 880 2 816. See more ideas about parian statue sculptures. Made from golden parian marble and called the winged victory of samothrace the origins of this famous depiction of nike are shrouded in mystery just as the story of what happened to its long gone head and arms. It was highly prized by ancient greeks for making sculptures some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient greek sculpture were carved from parian marble including the medici venus and the winged victory of samothrace.
Parian marble is a fine grained semi translucent pure white and entirely flawless marble quarried during the classical era on the greek island of paros in the aegean sea. Raffaelle monti was a 19th century italian sculptor who became famous for his illusionist sculptures using marble. During classical antiquity the most famous type was the close grained golden toned pentelic variety quarried at mount pentelicon in attica. Media in category parian marble sculptures the following 64 files are in this category out of 64 total.
See more ideas about parian sculpture statue. Par is a greek chronology covering the years from 1582 bc to 299 bc inscribed on a stele found on the island of paros in two sections and sold in smyrna in the early 17th century to an agent for thomas howard earl of arundel this inscription was deciphered by john selden and published among the arundel marbles. The most popular types of marble stone employed in sculpture are pentelic parian and carrara marble.