alabaster

Examples of alabaster in the following topics:

• Sculpture in Mesopotamia

  • Materials range from terra cotta, stones like alabaster and gypsum, and metals like copper and bronze.
  • Materials range from alabaster to limestone to gypsum, depending on each figure's significance.
  • The Assyrians, on the other hand, developed a style of large and exquisitely detailed narrative reliefs in painted stone or alabaster.
  • The votive figure, made from alabaster, shell, black limestone, and bitumen, depicts a male worshiper of Enil, a powerful Mesopotamian god.

• Sculpture

  • Life-size tomb effigies in stone or alabaster became popular among the wealthy, and grand multi-level tombs evolved.
  • By the 15th century there was an industry exporting small Nottingham alabaster altar reliefs in groups of panels over much of Europe for economical parishes who could not afford stone retables.

• The Nile River

  • Deposits of decorative stones such as porphyry, greywacke, alabaster, and carnelian dotted the eastern desert and were collected even before the First Dynasty.

• Carving

  • Other materials that were carved traditionally include alabaster, mineral gypsum and gems.

• Architecture in Assyria

  • According to contemporaneous inscriptions, the palace consisted of wood from a diverse number of tree species, alabaster, limestone, and a variety of precious metals.

• Chartreuse de Champmol

  • Only two monuments were ever erected, both in the same style, with painted alabaster effigies with lions at their feet and angels with spread wings at their heads .

• Art in the Second Millennium B.C.E.

  • The Assyrians, on the other hand, developed a style of large and exquisitely detailed narrative reliefs in painted stone or alabaster.

• Painting of the Early Dynastic Period

  • Alabaster was often used for expensive versions of these, while painted wood was the most common material, normally used for the small models of animals, slaves and possessions that were placed in tombs to provide for the afterlife.

• Sculpture of the Early Dynastic Period

  • Alabaster was often used for expensive versions of these, while painted wood was the most common material, normally used for the small models of animals, slaves and possessions that were placed in tombs to provide for the afterlife.

• Ceramics

  • Other raw materials can include feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, petuntse and alabaster.