Most impressive are the solid bronze doors executed in Rome ; ateliers of Luigi Magni ; and the Grand Marble Fireplace executed by Paunazio with Michelangelo motifs.

At Hunt's Marble House Allard's name is connected with the Gothic Room and is to be found on the bronze figures reclining on the pedimented mantel in the Grand Salon.

Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani

Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.

After his death in battle during the fall of Constantinople, he became a legendary figure in Greek folklore as the " Marble Emperor " who would awaken and recover the Empire and Constantinople from the Turks.

* The Parian Marble, the earliest extant example of a Greek chronological table

Aldington's poems, Choricos, To a Greek Marble, and Au Vieux Jardin, were in the November issue of Poetry, and H. D.

The Mantineia Marble, dated to the 4th century BC and now exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek Pandouris being played by a muse seated on a rock.

Marble from Greek quarries was a valuable commodity.

Marble tombstones inserted in the floor are covered with Greek inscriptions.

Marble plate at the entrance of Volissos showing an excerpt from Herodotus script in ancient Greek on Homer's life.

Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca.

The Parian Marble ( Marmor Parium ) or Parian Chronicle is a Greek chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC,

Isa Blagden and Theodosia Garrett Trollope, part East Indian, part Jewish, were models for Miriam in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, while George Mignaty's wife was model for the head of Hiram Powers ' Greek Slave.

( Marble, Roman copy of the 1st – 2nd century CE )

Venus, c. 125 ; Marble, Roman ; British Museum

Roman roads formed the parish's north-eastern and southern boundaries from Marble Arch: Watling Street ( later Edgware Road ) and the Uxbridge road, known by the 1860s as Bayswater Road.

Marble sawmills also seem to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia around 370 / 390 AD, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

Marble was still being burned for agricultural lime in the Roman Camapgna into the nineteenth century.

( Marble bas relief, Roman copy of the late 1st Century AD.

Past occupation or activity by man is attested by evidence such as the Heatheryburn Bronze Age collection of gold and other objects, now in the British Museum ; altars placed by Roman officers who took hunting trips out from forts in present-day County Durham ; and the use from Norman times onwards of " Frosterley Marble ", a black fossiliferous layer of limestone occurring near that village, as an ornamental material in Durham Cathedral and many other churches and public buildings.

Head of Apollo, modeled on the Apollo Belvedere ( Marble, Roman copy of ca.

Diameter: 1. 15 m ( the column only ); 3 m ( the base, i. e. the carved Marble fragments labelled as Milliarium Aureum in the Roman Forum ).

Either side of the Marble Hall, lie the Great Staircase ( 2 ) and the Tapestry Room ( 11 ), which contains a collection of early eighteenth century Mortlake tapestries.

* Weldon Kees ' third collection of poems, Poems 1947-1954 opens with an epigraph from the Marble Faun.

* The Marble Faun is also the title of a collection of poetry published in 1924 by William Faulkner.

The Marble Hill house also hosts a collection of early Georgian furniture and paintings as well as the Lazenby Bequest Chinoiserie collection.

* Edmonds, I. G., Case of the Marble Monster and Other Stories, ISBN 0-590-08024-5, a collection of stories about Ōoka Tadasuke, for younger readers.

Chater died in 1926, and bequeathed Marble Hall and its entire contents, including his unique collection of porcelain and paintings, to Hong Kong.

Marble columns with antique capitals in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, city of Kairouan, Tunisia

Existing still to this day are wood carved vases in Christiansborg ’ s horse stalls, and relief medallions on the side of the Marble Bridge ( Marmorbro ) that leads to the castle ’ s main entrance.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

image: The Earth seen from Apollo 17. jpg | Apollo 17 photo of the Earth as the spacecraft headed for the Moon ( now known as " The Blue Marble photo ").

In 1993, her recording of " Marble Halls " from Shepherd Moons was featured in the Martin Scorsese film, The Age of Innocence.

Aside from Hoffmann and de la Motte Fouqué, three other important authors from the era were Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff ( The Marble Statue, 1819 ), Ludwig Achim von Arnim ( Die Majoratsherren, 1819 ) and Adelbert von Chamisso ( Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814 ).

Marble is a rock resulting from metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, most commonly limestone or dolomite rock.

Judging from the Parian Marble, she was exiled from Lesbos to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 BC.

The roofs of the buildings and houses of the new city were not to exceed the level of the Marble Courtyard, at the entrance of the castle ( built above a hill dominating the city ), so that the perspective from the windows of the castle would not be obstructed.

" The Blue Marble " photograph of Earth, taken from Apollo 17

Marble tablet with a passage from the Constitution of Vermont in the Hall of Inscriptions at the Vermont State House.

Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante were two Spanish priests who, with a group of Spanish soldiers, explored southern Utah and traveled along the North Rim of the Canyon in Glen and Marble Canyons in search of a route from Santa Fe to California in 1776.

A California Condor in flight, photographed from Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon, 2008.

As he was walking in the Marble Courtyard between two lines of guards lighting the way with torches, headed toward his carriage which was waiting at the edge of the Marble Courtyard, Damiens emerged from the dark, passed through the guards, and stabbed the king in the side with a penknife.

The building's exterior uses Pennsylvania Blue Marble, which, due to the manner in which it was cut, has begun to deteriorate from the exposure to the elements of weak parts of the stone.

Marble votive relief of a chariot race, from Oropos, beginning of the 4th century BCE ( Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.

Marble sequences, corresponding to the Falacron Marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses, are up to 500m thick and are separated from the underlying gneisses by a transition zone about 300 m thick termed the T-zone consisting of alternances of dolomitic and calcitic marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses.

In 1991, the American band Vambo Marble Eye recorded a version of " Next " for their album Two Trick Pony, 18 years after an English-language version of the song by SAHB in 1973, from their Next album.

The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24, 000 acre ( 97 km² ) land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan / Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles ( 19 km ), and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River.

The land adjacent to the river, from Strawberry Hill in the south to Marble Hill Park in the north, is occupied by a mixture of luxury dwellings, formal gardens, public houses and a newly built park and leisure facility.