World S Best Marble Sculpture

While marble is quarried in many countries around the world including greece usa india spain romania china sweden and even germany there is one country which is generally considered the home of the most high grade and luxurious marble available italy.

World s best marble sculpture.

See more ideas about marble sculpture sculptures marble. From these pre historic developments it has evolved to form a complexity of art. Its arms and original plinth have been lost. The venus de milo sculpture was created sometime between 100 and 130 b c.

This type of art is among the oldest form in the world and it is thought to have been used long before even the painting or the cave walls by the humans. Marble sculpting refers to the art of creating three dimensional marble. If this form of art was used to depict the surrounding world at first then quickly it became a way to worship gods and later as it turned to classical art era to commemorate famous people. Why italian marble is the finest marble in the world.

Michelangelo active during the renaissance is widely regarded as the most influential sculptor of all time he was just 24 at the time of completion of the pieta which was soon regarded as one of the world s great masterpieces of sculpture pieta as a theme in christian art depicts virgin mary supporting the body of the dead christ after the crucifixion. Pieta 1499 michelangelo. It is a marble sculpture slightly larger than life size at 203 cm 6 ft 8 in high.