The delicate carving of the fingers and the book, made possible by the special properties of alabaster, underscores Mary’s attentiveness and piety. Along with bodily imagery, drapery is a big ...

Stone-carving space containing pneumatic and traditional carving tools and materials such as marble, limestone, and alabaster. Non-traditional materials, such as cast plastic, cast foam, and cast ...

As it inhales and exhales, the sculpture’s pneumatic hammers pound down on a centerpiece of the work, an alabaster stone piece, that disintegrates bit by bit, under pressure. When I was in the ...

Alabaster, found in hues ranging from pristine ... We reinterpret it with our own creativity." For decades, stone carving has been a vital income source for hundreds of families in Luxor ...

Ten lucky teens will have a chance to design, carve and build a stone bench from scratch at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center this summer, in a free, two-week stone carving workshop led by ...

Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into breathtaking artworks, reviving the ...