Sentence examples for stone monumental from inspiring English sources

The ceremonial architecture at Quiriguá is quite modest, but the site's importance lies in its wealth of sculpture, including the tallest stone monumental sculpture ever erected in the New World.

But then come the broad avenues flanked by Stalinist apartments, built of multicolored stone with monumental arches.

The surrounding area is rich in rock carvings, monumental stones, and graves dating back to the late Stone Age.

The presence of extremely and moderate halophiles on the monumental stone and stone works of art is also reported.

Wood carving and small crude stone figurines replaced monumental art.

Outside Memphis, he built the Step Pyramid, the world's first monumental stone structure.

Installing such a monumental stone work will take an entire day.

Balka is a sculptor – his grandfather was a monumental stone mason, and his father carved tombstones.

Two of his earliest influences, Henry Moore and Eric Gill, also sculpted holes in monumental stone.

Monumental stone sculpture of the kind closely identified with ancient Mesoamerica is largely absent.

In the Southwest, the monumental stone cliff dwellings that remain are eloquent testimony to the culture that existed there.