Marble Veils! 大理石面紗

Marble Veils!   大理石面紗 ---大理石能彫刻成這樣, 真是出神入化 !

Fascinating ...

Marble Veils!

The sculpture below, 'The veiled virgin' is one of the most impressive I have ever seen.

Notice the effect of transparency, from the Italian artist Giovanni Strazza of the nineteenth century.


 
Think of the epic difficulty of modeling a veil on a face of a material that is among the toughest on the planet, marble   (mineral hardness 3 - Friedrich Mohs scale).

Another problem is that marble has nothing added.   It is a sculpture made by subtracting 100 % of unwanted material .

 

Here are some rather large sculptures that have cleverly crafted marble veils:



 





 


Think of the level of difficulty and patience required to carve the material without   breaking it . 



This is a monument to the father of Prince Raimondo Sangro Antonio (1685-1757) . The Italian name of the monument Disinganno is often translated as 'disappointment', but not in the conventional sense of it, and Church Slavonic - "Freedom of the spell."   'Freedom of the spell' (after 1757 ) of Franschesko Kvirolo and is the most famous of his   works, the ability to make this netting.   All made of a single piece of marble and pumice, Kvirolo was the only Neapolitan master who accepted the challenge. Other great sculptors wouldnt, believing that the network would break into pieces.   Amazing master sculptors for centuries the art of precise cutting of the stone. 

 

How about that texture of skin, Lorenzo Berdini, which depicts the abduction of Persephone?

  Look at the finger pressure on the skin.  



 
The sculptor was only 23 years old when he carved it in 1621.