Eventually we located one whose alabaster petals had spread wide.
Extraordinary pieces in mixed media include the towering figure of Dame Alice Owen in marble, alabaster, bronze, paint and gilding; a fabulous unfurling bronze triptych by Mary Seton Watts of "Death Crowning Innocence"; and the show's crowning glory, an immense game of chess between Queen Elizabeth I and Philip II of Spain by William Reynolds-Stephens.
The city's modernist cathedral, built in concrete with windows made of glowing slivers of alabaster, seems to stake a claim to leadership in a church that has been run for 150 years by Irish priests on the east coast.The building, designed by Jose Moneo, a Spanish architect, was consecrated on September 2nd by Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles.
In 1539 the great Spanish humanist and art patron Juan Pardo Cardinal Tavera asked Berruguete to Toledo to execute the choir stalls of the Toledo Cathedral (1539 43), as well as the alabaster Transfiguration at the west end of the choir (1543 48).
The massive material is called alabaster or plaster of paris (originally found in the clays and muds of the Paris basin).
Such mosaics were also made of marble, serpentine alabaster, some forms of granite, and other stones suitable for polishing.
Stone's more than 80 commissions were primarily executed in alabaster, marble, or stone.
Twelve Assyrian alabaster reliefs were added to the museum's collections in 1955.
The region's quarries yield granite, limestone, basalt, marble, and alabaster; among metallic minerals are rich deposits of copper, of which Portugal is one of Europe's leading producers.
Particular marbles may be known for their use (e.g., shooters), their original material ("alleys" were once made of alabaster), or their appearance (e.g., "flints," "cloudies").
