Marble was dug up from quarries.
Making of marble in ancient greece.
Careers in ancient greece.
Wooden wedges were placed into the holes.
Many ancient temples shrines and statues of greek gods are made from this marble both in tinos and the sacred island of delos.
They cut colored marble in patterns to make hard floors that would last a long time.
Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
Sulphur can mix with limestone to make yellow marble.
The sculpture of ancient greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient greek art as with the exception of painted ancient greek pottery almost no ancient greek painting survives.
Marble art is part of the island s history.
Different colors of marble came from different parts of the.
The wood was then watered to make it expand.
The people who make a living out of processing marble are both technicians and artists.
Though rendered with more realism than sculptures from preceding periods marble figures from this time are not yet naturalistic as their expressions remain relatively stoic and their poses convey little movement.
The expanding wood broke the rock in a straight line.
Watching marble being extracted from a modern quarry is an impressive sight one that requires a tricky combination of skill.
During ancient greece s archaic period of art 8th century 500 bce artists began to show increasing interests in marble.
In ancient greece and rome people used marble especially white marble to make statues.
Imperialism and marble floors.
In the quarries holes were drilled in the rock in a straight line.
From time immemorial marble has been a ubiquitous material in the greek lands a vibrant glowing stone first exploited in prehistoric sculpture in the late neolithic era 5300 4500 bc but most visibly in the third millennium bc during the aegean early bronze age.
Athenians used marble in their construction of temples on the acropolis.