The male beauties sculpted in stone and visible in today's museums,
galleries, cathedrals, castles, churches, public monuments, parks and places,
have a similar origin : a (large) block of marble or other stone, block
that was extracted from the ground, in various quarries such as the
famous Carrara, Volterra, and Pietrasanta in Italy, by famous or less
known carvers and sculptors. And these cathedrals, palaces or public monuments as well were built using carved blocks of stone or marble.
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Italy (detail - Architecture Allegorie -hard stone
marqueterie - painting from Giuseppe Zocchi) |
So here is a visual world tour of some of these carvers and
sculptors, their tools, their workshops or studios and a selection of
some marble and other stone quarries. Let start with some stone carvers, through photographs, old postcards, paintings, drawings, and even marqueterie with hard stone!
Italy (Architecture allegorie - this is an impressive hard stone
marqueterie based on a painting from Giuseppe Zocchi - we will write
more about him later on).
France - Bastia, in Corsica
Middle-age drawings:
Netherlands
Netherlands
Russia - Moscow
France - Amiens
Dated 1425
Hungary
Turkey
USA - Queens - NYC
USA - Indiana - Limestone blocks, 1929.
USA - Manhattan NYC, 1905
USa - Washington, 1854
USA - Prisoners in the State Prison of Massachusetts
India - Assam, 1920
China - Guangzou, 1790
Japan
Japan - artist Wada Sanzo, 1883-1967
China
Mexico - Diego Rivera drawing
Mexico - Carl Pappe 1936
Egypt
Sources :
Site de Pierres-Info
Histoire des Arts et des Métiers
