Sentence examples for marble carving from inspiring English sources
Outside the entrance to the V&A's new computer games exhibition there is a marble carving by Canova.
In a fourth-century marble carving, the Greco-Roman poet-hero Orpheus has been demoted from free-standing cult object to furniture, a table support.
A large seated gilt bronze Chinese Buddha ordinarily sits in the garden of a Rockefeller home; so does an exquisite eighth-century marble carving of a Buddhist deity.
Elsewhere in the house, a marble carving depicted the Biblical imperative to be humble, with a Proverbs quote on the wall reading: "By Humility and The Fear of the Lord are Riches, Honor and Life".
Among the highlights is an untitled marble carving -- part fertility symbol, part benevolent protector -- by Costantino Nivola, an iconic example from the late artist's long series of figures inspired by the indigenous art of his native Sardinia.
I picked it up and found that it was a piece of gray marble carved with a floral frieze.
Today, many holy water fonts in Europe's Roman Catholic churches are made of marble carved in the shape of a giant clamshell.
The route the six men had plotted – from Puerto Sánchez to Puerto Ingeniero Ibáñez – took them past cathedrals of marble carved over the millennia by the waves.
The mosque itself was built in honour of the Saint of Fatehpur, Sheikh Salîm Chishti, whose tomb, enclosed in a shrine of white marble, carved with the delicacy of ivory-work, glitters like silver on the right of the quadrangle.
Along with the Farnese Bull a mountain of marble carved from a single block of stone, the largest surviving sculpture from antiquity— the original Hercules has stayed in Naples.
