Sentence examples for blocks of marble from from inspiring English sources
Material used include whole logs of precious Phoebe zhennan wood found in the jungles of south-western China, and large blocks of marble from quarries near Beijing.
Gates began restoring the bank after he purchased it, raising some of the funds by selling blocks of marble from the building as "bank bonds" at Art Basel, Mental Floss reported.
In the same way that you can envision the block of marble from which Michelangelo sculpted his "Moses," you can practically see the block of foam from which an oma building was carved.
This famous statue, arguably the most famous in the entire world was carved by Michelangelo, who spent three years carving the statue from a single block of marble, from 1501 to 1504, and the finished David was then placed in a public square, where he stood for 369 years.
The mice, chiseled out of sparkly pink cultured marble, are the kitsch, post-genetic descendants of Michelangelo's slaves emerging lazily from blocks of marble.
And, of course, there's Haydn's unfinished string quartet, and all those magnificent sculptures by Michelangelo, only half emerged from their blocks of marble.
Constructed from 29 different blocks of marble weighing up to 77 tonnes each, it contains 2,500 figures, which were once brightly painted.
Only in the few blocks of Marble Hill is Manhattan part of the mainland United States.
They abhor men as tasteless, dull and inconvertible, and console themselves with colour-bags and blocks of marble... Thus is art vilified... it stands in the imagination as somewhat contrary to nature, and struck with death from the first".
The blocks of marble are engraved with the outline of a female nude with a bubble head.
