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 ...

The stone carvings are said to be some of the best ... were an attempt to erase and recycle the precious alabaster material by a later monarch—possibly Sinsharishkun, the last king of Nineveh.

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 ...

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 ...

Nestled high in the Colorado Rockies, the annual MARBLE/marble Stone Carving Symposium has drawn sculptors, both professional and aspiring, for decades. It took around a decade for that seed to ...

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 ...

A carving piece on display at the exhibition hall of the intangible heritage workshop in Quyang, Hebei province. [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn] Stone carving, known as the art of "stone and ...

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 ...