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Stone sculpture

Robert Manuel Cook notes that Ancient Greek copyists seem to have used many fewer points than some later ones, and copies often vary considerably in the composition as well as the finish.



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Abolhassan Sadighi

After numerous experiences in creating plaster sculptures, he made his first stone sculpture on a stucco model of Venus de Milo.

Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum

It includes a poetry garden with a large stone sculpture inscribe with verses by Nezahualcoyotl, as well as some verses by Guati Rojo himself.

Burton Pynsent House

The Chatham Vase, a stone sculpture commissioned as a memorial to William Pitt the Elder by his wife, Hester, Countess of Chatham, was originally erected at their house in Burton Pynsent in 1781; but it was moved to the grounds of Chevening House in 1934, where it currently resides.

Dina Merhav

In 1984 she attended the stone sculpture seminar in Pietrasanta, Italy.

Eddie Masaya

Born in the Nyanga district, Masaya showed little interest in sculpture until, while at school, he found a copy of The African Times containing an article about Zimbabwean stone sculpture.

Freiberg am Neckar

The pulpit rests on a stone sculpture: the pulpit bearer, a kneeling man, created by Anton Pilgram, bears it upon his shoulders.

Havmannen

Havmannen, or Havmann (in English: "The Man from the Sea") is a granite stone sculpture by the English artist Antony Gormley located in the city of Mo i Rana in Northern Norway.

Mission San Francisco de Asís

The cast stone sculpture, by Arthur Putnam, was completed in 1909, cast between 1916–1917 and installed in 1918 when the mission was remodeled.

Tlalmanalco

Much of the work is stone sculpture, the best known of which is the Effigy of Xochipilli.