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1 giorno fa · At the Colosseum, built by the salt-of-the-earth, man-of-the-people Emperor Vespasian, that was absolutely the point. The use of local stone set him in contrast with his predecessor, the effete aristocrat Nero: here too the choice of stone was more than a building material, it was an advertisement of regime change.
1 giorno fa · Source: Chidawu registers milestones as he carves felines –-Newsday Zimbabwe Chidawu has turned his choice of creativity to other wildlife animals like the Big Five of the lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and the elephant. DURING the past few years, all tourists and local buyers visiting the Chitungwiza Arts Centre in search of carved flying objects […]
1 giorno fa · From the small statues made by local artisans to the famous, breathtaking carvings found at Angkor Wat, stone carving has become one of the country's most cherished art forms. Let's check out the legends & myth of Angkor Wat's Art.
3 giorni fa · Thanks to local government policies, the villagers have been able to profit from the stone processing boom in recent years. Jiangzhou stone carving, a traditional skill originating in Xinjiang county, dates back at least a 1,000 years, and Xizhuang has carefully preserved the tradition.
5 giorni fa · Stone sculpture is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, evidence can be found that even the earliest societies indulged in some form of stone work, though not all areas of the world have such abundance of good stone for carving ...
2 giorni fa · In Sicily, his consort was the nymph Aetna, and his sons were two gods of Sicilian geysers called Palici, who are elsewhere called the sons of Zeus by Aetna, or of Zeus by Thalia (another daughter of Hephaestus), or of Adranos. Hephaestus fathered several children with mortals and immortals alike. One of those children was the robber Periphetes.
3 giorni fa · One of the most famous novels of the period is The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (d. 1763). Cao offers an extended tale of a grand family in the 18th century that focuses upon two young characters, the young heir Bao-yu and the beautiful Dai-yu, amidst a rich narrative of family intrigue ...
