Marble bust of Nero.

Marble bust found in the shrine room, the original of which is in the British Museum.

Marble bust of statesman Shang Yang

Marble bust of Antisthenes based on the same original ( British Museum )

Rushmore, sculpted a masterpiece from Alabama Marble – the bust of Lincoln – which stands today in the rotunda of the nation ’ s capitol.

Marble bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon c. 1804.

Marble bust of the Rev.

Marble bust of Aristotle.

Marble bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi

Marble bust by Fedot Shubin, 1774

Other monuments include a bust on the first floor of the Tennessee State Capitol, his grave monument at the Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville, and Daughters of American Revolution monuments at Marble Springs in Knoxville and at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, Georgia.

Marble bust of Julian Zachariewicz at the entrance of the main building

Marble bust of Philetaerus.

Marble bust of Chauncey Allen Goodrich, by Chauncey Ives, 1873.

Marble bust, circa 1902, located by the Treasury building.

Marble bust of Franz Moritz von Lacy by Giuseppe Ceracci.

This challenge has caused the industry and the town of Marble to undergo many boom and bust periods since quarrying started in the mid 1880s, making the town emblematic of the economic fluctuations that beset a single-industry economy.

Marble bust sculpted in 1861 by E. B.

Marble portrait bust of Panyassis.

A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

* Transformation, an alternate title for The Marble Faun, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Blue Marble composite images generated by NASA in 2001 ( left ) and 2002 ( right ).

Image: Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island edit1. jpg | Marble House, owned and operated by the Preservation Society

For example, according to an entry in the Parian Marble, Simonides died in 468 / 7 BC at the age of ninety yet, in another entry, it lists a victory by his grandfather in a poetry competition in Athens in 489 / 8 BC — this grandfather must have been over a hundred years old at that time if the birth dates for Simonides are correct.

The grandfather's name, as recorded by the Parian Marble, was also Simonides, and it has been argued by some scholars that the earliest references to Simonides in ancient sources might in fact be references to this grandfather.

File: Lucha de Heracles con el león de Nemea. jpg | Marble by J. M.

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.

* The Marble Faun ( 1860 ) is a romance set in Italy by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Some found work on farms and ranches, but by the turn of the century many had moved into the Marble Falls area to work in town.

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.

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.

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.

The deposit is part of the “ Murphy Marble Belt ” extending 321 / 2 miles wide by 400 feet deep and is the world ’ s largest commercial deposit of madre cream marble.

Moretti-Harrah, in a 3 ½ year project shared by Gray-Knox Marble Company of Knoxville, supplied much of the marble for the U. S. Supreme Court Building, including thirty-six massive interior columns measuring 22 ’ long x 3 ’ 4 ” in diameter.

The statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, the New York Stock Exchange Building in New York City and Watertower Place in Chicago are but a few examples produced from and by Georgia Marble.

While New Preston village once had its own post office, it is now served by a combined New Preston-Marble Dale post office, which is located in Marble Dale, and also serves the southern portion of the Town of Warren.

The Georgia Marble rail lines at Tate and Marble Hill, and the Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad at Blue Ridge, Georgia are also operated by GNRR.

Their web site also states the “ GNRR runs through a Georgia Marble facility that no is no longer served by rail ” at Nelson.

These include the El Dorado Hills Community Services District ( CSD ), the Rolling Hills Community Services District ( CSD ), the Marble Mountain Community Services District, the El Dorado Hills County Water District ( fire department ), and the El Dorado Irrigation District.

Marble ( 620 – 610 BC ) Metropolitan Museum of Arts

A list of donations to the Museum, dated 31 January 1784 refers to the Hamilton bequest of a " Colossal Foot of an Apollo in Marble ".

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

Marble statue of a helmed hoplite ( 5th century BC ), Archæological Museum of Sparta, Greece

It has perished, but late copies exist, of which the most faithful is in the Vatican Museums. Marble lion on display in the British Museum, London In a temple enclosure Newton discovered a fine seated statue of Demeter, which he sent back to the British Museum, and about three miles south-east of the city he came upon the ruins of a splendid tomb, and a colossal figure of a lion carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, ten feet in length and six in height, which has been supposed to commemorate the great naval victory, the Battle of Cnidus in which Conon defeated the Lacedaemonians in 394 BC.

Marble sarcophagus with a relief about the hunt of the Calydonian boar on its main face ( 2nd century AC ), in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis.

Marble Slab with the Recall of Philoctetes-Archeological Museum of Brauron

Marble Museum: Located in the Nelson City Hall, the museum includes a year-round exhibit that includes “ examples of fine marble and shows the history of marble mining in Pickens County.

Lorenzo Bartolini, ( Italian, 1777 – 1850 ), La Table aux Amours ( The Demidoff Table ), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture

* Marble sculpture at the British Museum

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.

Copenhagen, the capital, is home to many famous sites and attractions, including Tivoli Gardens, Amalienborg Palace ( home of the Danish monarchy ), Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen Cathedral, Rosenborg Castle, Opera House, Frederik's Church ( Marble Church ), Thorvaldsens Museum, Rundetårn, Nyhavn and the Little Mermaid sculpture.

File: WLA metmuseum Marble statue of a kouros youth 2. jpg | New York Kouros, Metropolitan Museum of Art 32. 11. 1

File: Hiawatha by Augustus Saint-Gaudens 02. jpg | Hiawatha, Marble ( 1872 ), Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 2007 the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio presented the first major exhibition devoted to the most celebrated nineteenth century American sculptor, " Hiram Powers: Genius in Marble ".

The thrones used by King George V and Queen Mary are on display at Marble Hall Gallery and Museum at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

One of his most famous works, Cleopatra, ( 1858 ) was described and admired in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance, The Marble Faun, and is on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.

1: The palace, 2: King's Gate, 3: The Palace Square, 4: Inner Courtyard, 5: Entrance to the parliament, 6: The Rigsdag Courtyard, 7: The Theatre Museum, 8: The Royal Stables, 9: The Marble Bridge, 10: The Show Grounds, 11: The Riding School, 12: Thorvaldsen's Museum, 13: Entrance to the Supreme Court, 14: Queen's Gate, Entrance to the Royal Reception Rooms, 15 The Palace Chapel, 16: Prins Jørgen's Courtyard

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.

In his travels he discovered deposits of coal at Ayas in the Gulf of Scanderoon, and was responsible for organising the transport of Marble statues from Aleppo for the British Museum.