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    A stone sculpture is an object made of stone which has been shaped, usually by carving, or assembled to form a visually interesting three-dimensional shape...
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    as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and...
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    Marble Sculpture Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common...
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    Chinese sculpture originated from the Shang, and has a history of more than 3,000 years.[dubious – discuss] Chinese sculpture eventually influenced the...
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    A sculpture garden or sculpture park is an outdoor garden or park which includes the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works...
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    called mining or quarrying. Stone carving is one of the processes which may be used by an artist when creating a sculpture. The term also refers to the...
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    18750°W / 19.42611; -99.18750 The Aztec sun stone (Spanish: Piedra del Sol) is a late post-classic Mexica sculpture housed in the National Anthropology Museum...
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    descriptions match extant works. While a great deal of Roman sculpture, especially in stone, survives more or less intact, it is often damaged or fragmentary;...
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  • The Aberlemno Sculptured Stones are a series of Pictish standing stones originating in and around the village of Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland. Three are...
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    Stonemasonry (redirect from Stone masonry)
    buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones, often together with mortar...
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    Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323...
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    essentially consists of sculpture of stone, metal or terracotta. It is clear there was a great deal of painting, and sculpture in wood and ivory, during...
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    The Monifieth Sculptured Stones are a series of five class II and III standing Pictish stones from the early Medieval period found in or around St Regulus'...
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    Sculptured stones is a name applied to carved stone monuments from the early Christian period excavated in various parts of the British Isles and Scandinavia...
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  • Sculpture of Stone is the third album on a major record label by the Polish death metal band Dies Irae released in 2004. Marcin "Novy" Nowak - bass, vocals...
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    Sculpture and in particular stone sculpture is an art for which Zimbabwe is well known around the world. Central Zimbabwe contains the "Great Dyke" –...
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  • following major classes of stone sculpture (usually executed in limestone) may be distinguished. Stelas. These are large, elongated stone slabs usually covered...
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  • better-known African stone sculpture, for example from the Yoruba culture, Philip Allison, writing in 1968, stated "The stone sculptures of Rhodesia are few...
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    Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian style sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were...
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    The stone sculptures of Southern Dynasties mausoleums (Chinese: 南朝陵墓石刻; pinyin: Náncháo Língmù Shíkè) are several groups of stone sculptures in Jiangsu...
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    2000–1900 BCE, in Mohenjo-daro's Late Period, and is "the most famous stone sculpture" of the Indus Valley civilization ("IVC"). It is now in the collection...
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    Stone Flower (Croatian: Kameni cvijet; Serbian: Камени цвет, Kameni cvet) is a monument to the victims of the Ustasha genocide of the Serbs during the...
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    Kryptos (category Stone sculptures in Virginia)
    stone, including a triangle-shaped black stone slab. The name Kryptos comes from the ancient Greek word for "hidden", and the theme of the sculpture is...
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  • launch the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, the first comprehensive catalogue of early medieval English stone sculpture (from the 7th-11th centuries)...
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    The Stone Sculpture Park (traditional Chinese: 石雕公園; simplified Chinese: 石雕公园; pinyin: Shídiāo Gōngyuán) is a park in Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan...
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    The Stele Forest or Beilin Museum is a museum for steles and stone sculptures in Beilin District in Xi'an, Northwest China. The museum, which is housed...
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    Venus of Willendorf (category Stone sculptures in Austria)
    ago, based on radiocarbon dates from the layers surrounding it. Similar sculptures, first discovered in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are...
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    Olmec colossal heads (category Stone sculptures in Mexico)
    the first people in the Americas to develop a sophisticated style of stone sculpture. In the first decade of the 21st century, evidence emerged of Olmec...
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  • plural korai) is the modern term given to a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting female figures, always of a young age...
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    Dream is a sculpture and a piece of public art by Jaume Plensa in Sutton, St Helens, Merseyside. Costing approximately £1.8m (equivalent to £3.05 million...
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