Soapstone, with a Mohs hardness of about 2, is an easily worked stone, commonly used by beginning students of stone carving.
Alabaster and … See more

In the direct method of stone carving, the work usually begins with the selection of stone for carving, the qualities of which will influence the artist's … See more

• Venus of Willendorf.
• "The Dying Gaul", a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work, originally in bronze, of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums See more

• Carving a stone column: Pitching, video
• Demonstrating how to carve details in a stone sculpture of the Charioteer of Delphi, video
• The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art: stone sculpture, a fully digitized collection catalog from The … See more

Rough block forms of unfinished statuary are known and are in museums. Notable are the Akhenaten, Amarna Period statuary found at Akhetaten. One known sculptor, See more

In the 21st century, stone sculpture has grown to encompass technologically advanced tools including robots, super computers, and algorithms. In 2017, Karen LaMonte first displayed Cumulus, her eight-foot-tall, two-and-a-half ton sculpture of a See more

• Marble sculpture
• Stone carving
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• List of decorative stones
• List of colossal sculptures in situ See more