STONE CRAFT AND ART

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Stone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.

Alabaster is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals:gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and calcite (a carbonate of calcium). The former is the alabaster of the present day; the latter is generally the alabaster of the ancients.

Dolomite (pronounced /?d?l?ma?t/) is the name of a sedimentarycarbonate rock and a mineral, both composed of calcium magnesium carbonate CaMg(CO3)2 found in crystals.

Glossary of sculpting, This page describe terms and jargon related to sculpture and sculpting.

Granite (pronounced /??ræn?t/) is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystalslarger than the groundmass forming a rock known as porphyry.

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate: CaCO3).

Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite (a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It is extensively used for sculpture, as a building material, and in many other applications.

Marble sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional forms from marble. Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts.

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in theEarth’s crust.

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly stone (either rock or marble), metal, glass, or wood.

Constantine L. Seferlis (1930 – 2005) is acknowledged as a master sculptor and stone carver whose works exemplified a group of public monumental artists in the United States during the second half of the 20th century.

The serpentine group describes a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate ((Mg, Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4) minerals; they may contain minor amounts of other elements including chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel.

Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a metamorphic rock, a talc-schist. It is largely composed of the mineral talc and is rich in magnesium. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism,…

Travertine is a sedimentary rock. It is a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals; typically aragonite, but often recrystallized to, or primarily, calcite.

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