January 4, 2017 at 1:18 pm
This Marble Bust of Sam the Eagle is Perfect
Check out this awesome marble sculpture of The Muppets character, Sam the Eagle, by Sebastian Martorana
Check out this awesome marble sculpture of The Muppets character, Sam the Eagle, by Sebastian Martorana
Marble Mountain consists of 25 modular sections and measures 12′ wide, 8′ deep and 8′ tall with 32 possible paths for 300+ marbles
This hand cranked music box uses 2,000 marbles to power a kick drum, bass, vibraphone and more
Designer Alexander Chapelin combines cut travertine marble with layers of blue resin to create a coffee table ‘lagoon’
Granted it may also be the only ‘marble run machine’ video you see today, it’s hypnotizing to watch 11,000 marbles in motion like this!
Antonio Corradini (1688 – 1752) was a Venetian Rococo sculptor. Corradini was born in Venice and worked mainly in the Veneto but also completed commissions across Europe, living for periods of his life in Germany, Vienna and Naples—where he died—shortly after completing Modesty (below), arguably his most celebrated work. Corradini was apprenticed to the…
I had no idea what the extraction process at a marble quarry was like and certainly didn’t imagine it was like this. Watch Il Capo aka The Chief, guide his men using a silent language of gesture and sign as they extract gigantic slabs of marble. Italian artist and filmmaker Yuri Ancarani captures the…
Artist and sculptor Matthew Simmonds carves small-scale interiors into marble. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with stone buildings, Matthew’s work takes stone architecture (particularly sacred stone architecture) as a central theme. Making a play of architectural spaces on a small-scale, the solid stone is opened up to reveal internal worlds, often intricately carved, in which…
THE WORN MARBLE STEPS AT THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA Photograph by SALENA LETTERA / THE DAILY RANT Website | Facebook | Twitter | Flickr | Instagram Here’s an interior view of the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa you don’t typically see. Taken by Salena Lettera of The Daily Rant, we see…
Alex Seton is a Sydney-based artist born in 1977. Seton graduated from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in 1998 and has exhibited his artwork nationally and internationally since. Seton is best known for his realistic sculptures carved from marble. In the selection below, we explore Seton’s recreations…
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