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Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor...

Luna (name), including a list of people and characters with this given name and surname Luna marble, the ancient Roman term for Carrara marble Luna may...

exploitation of white marble quarries in the nearby Alpi Apuane and neighboring mountains of Carrara, whose stone bore the name of "Luna marble" in ancient times...

Marble Sculpture Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common...

constructed by 1031, with the Luna Vasahi by 1230, and the others at intervals between 1459 and 1582. All are in white marble which adds greatly to their...

column Tropaeum Traiani In ancient times, Carrara marble bore the name of Luna marble after the port of Luna, Etruria on the harbor of Luni from which it was...

the temple featured barrel vaults and Corinthian capitals. Built of Luna marble and concrete, it housed the cult statues of Apollo, Diana and Latona...

was hit with some sort of disaster as 10 columns were replaced with Luna marble, which is similar to the original but not an exact replica. By 1132,...

travertine and marble mixed in with concrete and brick. Proconnesian marble was used for the columns, Pentelic marble for the masonry, and Luna marble for the...

The exterior of the temple was constructed using the Italian white Luna marble from Carrara and the columns reflect the Corinthians style. The architecture...

the late 1st century BC. Male portrait from Nemi (Valle Giardino), in Luna marble, (30 BC). Male portrait (second half of the 1st century BC). Portrait...

being proud. I noticed that the inner bank of the curve... Was of white marble, and so decorated With carvings that not only Polycletus But nature herself...

layout) by openings and elaborately and finely sculpted entirely in Luna marble. Within the enclosing precinct walls, the altar itself was carved with...

marble panelled veneers of the walls of the staircase and corridor had a low dado of red portasanta marble above which was a moulding in white luna marble...

copy was commissioned from Adolfo Apolloni, who instead of the original Luna marble employed travertine from the demolished Porta Salaria. Thus renovated...

Mahaviraswami. Among all the five legendary marble temples of Dilwara, the most famous of those are the Vimal Vasahi and the Luna Vasahi temples. In Mount Abu, the...

The Layer Quaternity are four marble sculpture figurines approximately 25 centimetres (10 in) in height located on the two columns of the Layer Monument...

Moon and turn her back into Luna, who reconciles with her sister and resumes her royal duties. During season nine, Luna and Celestia prepares to retire...

Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro Pedra da Galinha Choca, Quixadá, Ceará Valle de la Luna, Antofagasta Playa de la Calabocillos, Constitucion Silla del Diablo El Peñón...

The Layer monument is an early 17th-century polychrome marble mural monument (320 × 350 cm) erected in the memory of the lawyer Christopher Layer (1531–1600)...