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"Sylacauga-Alabama's "Marble City"-is blessed with an abundant natural resource that nurtures both its economy and its cultural heritage. Thirty-five miles long, at least four hundred feet deep, and more than a mile wide, the Sylacauga Marble Belt yields crystalline white marble frequently compared to the Parian marble treasured by Greek sculptors and the Italian Carrara marble often chosen by Michelangelo. Artisans have quarried Sylacauga marble for tombstones since the early 1800s, and architects prized it for years as dimension stone for buildings like the United States Supreme Court. In the early 1900s, Giuseppe Moretti and Gutzon Borglum both chose this marble for magnificent sculptures. When granite, better able to withstand industrial pollution, overtook marble as the preferred architectural stone in the 1930s, Sylacauga's quarry owners shifted their focus to the production of ground calcium carbonate (GCC), a fundamental ingredient in manufactured products from toothpaste, foodstuffs, and disposable diapers to paints, caulks, and sealants. Many cringe at the idea of blasting and grinding marble into fine powder, but GCC is a vital factor in the local economy. Thankfully, the Magic of Marble Festival, first held in 2009, has revitalized interest in the artistic value of Sylacauga marble, inspiring sculptors from across the United States and masters from Italy to apply their skills to cream-white blocks of this beautiful stone and share their creativity with thousands of residents and visitors each year. This is the story of quarry pioneers, investors, artists, and artisans. It also the story of their families, who fondly remember their lives along the edge of "the hole" that provided for them"--

Marble industry and trade --- Sylacauga (Ala.) --- Alabama --- History.

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In Ancient Marbles in Naples in the Eighteenth Century Eloisa Dodero aims at documenting the history of numerous private collections formed in Naples during the 18th century, with particular concern for the “Neapolitan marbles” and the circumstances of their dispersal. Research has thus made it possible to formulate a synthesis of the collecting dynamics of Naples in the 18th century, to define the interest of the great European collectors, especially British, in the antiquities of the city and its territory and to draw up a catalogue which for the first time brings together the nucleus of sculptures reported in the Neapolitan collections or coming from irregular excavations, most of which shared the destiny of dispersal, in some cases here traced in definitive fashion.

Marble sculpture, Classical --- Sculpture --- Antiquities --- Marble sculpture, Classical --- Private collections --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Collectors and collecting --- History --- Naples (Italy) --- Antiquities

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Franse titel : N11199 : Marbres Helléniques : De la carrière au chef-d'oeuvre : [ Exposition : .. ]

Architecture --- History of civilization --- Archeology --- Antiquity --- Greece --- Archéologie grecque --- Marble sculpture, Greek --- -Marble --- -Archeologie ; Griekenland ; marmer ; van steengroeve tot kunstwerk --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Brussel ; Passage 44 --- Metamorphic rocks --- Calcium carbonate --- Greek marble sculpture --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; Oud-Griekse kunst --- Marble. --- Marble --- Exhibitions. --- archeologie --- Griekenland --- (069) --- 7.032.6 --- Archeologie ; Griekenland ; marmer ; van steengroeve tot kunstwerk --- Exhibitions --- (Musea. Collecties) --- Exposition --- Histoire et culture grecques --- Sculpture --- Marbre. Industrie. Grèce ancienne. Exposition. Bruxelles. 1987. --- Marmerindustrie. Griekenland (Oud-). Tentoonstelling. Brussel. 1987. --- Bezoekers tentoonstelling

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The study of the Attic sarcophagi from Ephesos throws a light on the tectonics, the ornaments, the iconography and the stylistic development as a basis for a relative chronology of the genre on site. The results of this study gain in importance as they can be correlated with chronologically "fixed" data - see the Aristides sarcophagus with its portrait and the associated inscription on the sarcophagus base. The results can be compared with other Attic sarcophagi and be applied to other genres of the imperial Attic sculpture, so that the importance of the Attic sarcophagi as one of the leading forms of the Greek sculpture of the imperial period is underlined. Die Untersuchungen der attischen Sarkophage aus Ephesos ergaben vielfältige Kriterien und Entwicklungen in Bezug auf Tektonik, Ornamentik, Ikonographie und Stil für die Erstellung einer relativen Chronologie der Gattung vor Ort. Die erzielten Resultate gewinnen an Bedeutung, da sie mit chronologisch „fixierten“ Eckdaten – siehe den Aristides-Sarkophag mit Porträtkopf und zugehöriger Inschrift am Sarkophagsockel – korreliert werden können. Die Ergebnisse können so mit anderen attischen Sarkophagen verglichen werden und werden übertragbar auf andere Gattungen der kaiserzeitlichen attischen Plastik, so dass eine Bedeutung / der Rang der attischen Sarkophage als Leitgattung für die griechische Plastik der Kaiserzeit untermauert wird.

sarcophagi --- Attic sarcophagi --- Ephesos --- Asia Minor --- Turkey --- Marble Analysis --- Sarkophage --- Attische Sarkophage --- Türkei --- Marmoranalyse --- Achilleus --- Amazonen --- Attika (Landschaft) --- Beirut --- Kymation --- Selçuk --- V. Chr.

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The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of the villages and small towns of Roman Phrygia is known to us in vivid and unexpected detail. Few parts of the Mediterranean world offer so rich a body of evidence for rural society in the Roman Imperial and late antique periods, and for the flourishing of ancient Christianity within this landscape. The eleven essays in this book offer new perspectives on the remarkable culture, lifestyles, art and institutions of the Anatolian uplands in antiquity.

Romans --- Sepulchral monuments --- Sculpture, Phrygian --- Households --- Law --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Marble industry and trade --- Romains --- Monuments funéraires --- Sculpture phrygienne --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Droit --- Inscriptions latines --- Marbre --- Industrie --- Phrygia --- Phrygie --- History. --- Antiquities, Roman --- Histoire --- Antiquités romaines --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Monuments funéraires --- Ménages (Statistique) --- Antiquités romaines --- Phrygien --- History --- Civilization. --- Phrygian sculpture --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Marble quarrying --- Stone industry and trade --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Latin inscriptions --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Arts and Humanities