In 437 BC, Mnesicles started building the Propylaea, monumental gates with columns of Pentelic marble, partly built upon the old propylaea of Pisistratus.

A total of 530 cubic meters of new Pentelic marble were used.

The building material was changed to the expensive but high-quality Pentelic marble and the order was changed from Doric to Corinthian, marking the first time that this order had been used on the exterior of a major temple.

File: NAMA-Statue of a sleeping Maenad 04. JPG | Statue of a sleeping Maenad, lying on a panther skin spread on a rocky surface ; the type is known as the reclining Hermaphrodite ; Pentelic marble ; found at the south of the Athenian Acropolis ; Hadrianic time ( 117-138 AD ), follows a classical trend in the attic art ; National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

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.

The statue moreover was not of Parian, but of Pentelic marble.

The major part of the remaining white marble is now state-owned and, like its Pentelic counterpart, is only used for archaeological restorations.

The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion ( timepiece ), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the Roman agora in Athens.

The architectural sculpture is in both Pentelic and Parian marble.

The Propylaea was constructed of white Pentelic marble and gray Eleusinian marble or limestone, which was used only for accents.

The stoa's dimensions are 115 by 20 metres wide ( 377 by 65 feet wide ) and it is made of Pentelic marble and limestone.

The Parian's main rival in antiquity was Pentelic marble, which is also flawless white, albeit with a uniform, faint yellow tint that makes it shine with a golden hue under sunlight.

The territories of ancient Greece, except for Sicily and southern Italy, contained abundant supplies of fine marble, with Pentelic and Parian marble the most highly prized, along with that from modern Prilep in Macedonia, and various sources in modern Turkey.

The entire monument is made of Pentelic marble, from Mt.

Pentelic marble was used for the Parthenon and many other notable structures in Athens, although its quality can vary significantly.

* " Pentelic Fragment ," a poem about Metaneira by Jared Carter.

Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps, they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait.

His early Roman commissions included terracotta and some marble portrait busts, while he supported himself with small works like crucifixes.

On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.

His marble portrait bust by Bernini was not considered a good likeness and was banished to a passageway.

A marble bust of him stands in the Aberdeen Public Library and his portrait hangs in Marischal College.

Wishing to increase the prestige of the image of France and the French royal family, Colbert played an active role in bringing the great Italian architect-sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Paris ( June – October 1665 ), in order to design the new East Facade of the Louvre and sculpt a marble portrait bust of Louis XIV.

A marble portrait statue of Girolamo Fracastoro by the Carrarese sculptor Danese Cattaneo ( completed 1559 ) stands on a beautiful arch in the central Piazza dei Signori of Verona, near the monument to Dante Alighieri.

Jules Hardouin-Mansart, marble bust by Jean-Louis Lemoyne: a full-dress Baroque portrait bust demonstrates that the King's architect is no mere craftsman

* a portrait bust of Piero de Medici ( 1453 ), notable as " the oldest authenticated example we have of a post-classical portrait of a living person in the form of a marble bust ".

Also lost were Hans Holbein the Younger's iconic Portrait of Henry VIII and Gian Lorernzo Bernini's marble portrait bust of King Charles I.

The portrait statues of John and Enriqueta Rylands in white marble, in the reading room, were sculpted by John Cassidy who also executed the allegorical group of ' Theology, Science and Art ' in the vestibule.

Hanging beside his lovely black and white marble chimney-piece in the Princess ' Room is a painting which is believed to be a preliminary sketch for the famous Van Dyck portrait " Children of Charles I.

The first collection consisted of 78 paintings, two marble busts, one portrait miniature, and one bronze sculpture.

In an auction at Bonhams, London on 19 April 2007, the 74 cm high white marble portrait bust of Maharajah Duleep Singh by Victorian sculptor John Gibson RA in Rome in 1859 fetched £ 1. 7 million (£ 1. 5 million plus premium and tax ).

Highlights include two monumental 3, 000 pound statues of the Egyptian lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, the Walters Mummy, alabaster reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Greek gold jewelry including the Greek bracelets from Olbia on the shores of the Black Sea, the Praxitelean Satyr, a large assemblage of Roman portrait heads, a Roman bronze banquet couch and marble sarcophagi from the tombs of the prominent Licinian and Calpurnian families.

Today a portrait of Morton in his Scottish strip stands at the top of the marble staircase at Ibrox's Main Stand such is his enduring stature at the club.

It was in this capacity that he produced some of his finest work, notably marble portrait busts of the Empress Josephine, which was also modelled in bisque Sèvres porcelain, and of Queen Hortense ( about 1810 ), which was also cast in bronze by Ravrio.

His imposing white stone and marble tomb in the form of a shrine with its own gabled roof, replete with his carved portrait, was erected by public subscription in 1891 over his grave at the Congregationalist model non-denominational garden cemetery, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London.

The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon ( 1852 ), Faucheur ( 1855 ), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy ; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers ; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres.

He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, a perk of being the cathedral's surveyor, his marble tomb consists of his profile portrait, suspended from an Ionic column, surrounded by rich embellishment.

There is also a tablet to her in the Shakespeare Memorial with a portrait figure, and the marble pulpit in the Shakespeare church with her portrait as Saint Helena was given in her memory by her husband.

Greek marble relief c. 330 BC depicting a hoplite in combat, holding his weapon above his head as he prepares to strike a fallen enemy.

He subsequently worked for the railroad, first as a brakeman and later a surveyor, as a professional marble sculptor, and was assistant to the head architect of the 1913 San Francisco World's Fair, where some of his work was displayed.

The marble herm figure with the bearded head of philosopher type, bearing the explicit inscription, must be taken as purely conventional.

In 1980 the mosque was extensively refurbished in white marble and gold trim by Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin the head of the Dawoodi Bohra, an international Ismaili sect based in India.

The topmost course of the tower revolved slowly, showing a different leering head with each turn, and the marble walls of Minas Morgul shone not with reflected moonlight, but with a pale, frightening light of its own which Tolkien described as " a corpse-light " that " illuminated nothing ".

The iconography of the bronze David follows that of the marble David: a young hero stands with sword in hand, the decapitated head of his enemy at his feet.

He places his left foot on Goliath's head ; on the one hand, this pose allows Donatello to connect David more strongly to his fallen foe than he did in the marble version.

The throne is made of sixty-five pieces of marble and was designed by Mirza Baba Naghash Bashi ( head painter ) of the Qajar court.

Sabazios ' relations with the goddess may be surmised in the way that his horse places a hoof on the head of the bull, in a Roman marble relief at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

His head of Abraham Lincoln, carved from a six-ton block of marble, was exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and can be found in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D. C. A patriot, believing that the " monuments we have built are not our own ," he looked to create art that was " American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement " according to a 1908 interview article.

A 17th century record states that " this cave a beautiful gate with a porch of exquisitely wrought marble " and two idols, one of goddess Vetal Candi and a head being in a large square seat.

* The " Rondanini Medusa ", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena ; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( 1798 – 1801 )

In 2008, archaeologists digging at the ancient site of Sagalassos in Turkey discovered a colossal marble head which is believed to be that of Faustina.

In January 1930, during the Bush House excavations for the South East Wing, a marble head was uncovered from a pile of rubble.

The head is an elderly, balding Roman man carved from Carrara marble.

The marble head is now on display in the Centre Block of Bush House.

The marble sculpture appears to depict Moses with horns on his head, though some modern artists and historians claim that there were never intended to be horns.

Roman marble Meleager of Skopas | head of Meleager, after Scopas, on a restored bust ( British Museum ).

Roman marble sculpture of Agathodaemon restored with an unrelated head, as " Antinous Agathodaemon ", purchased in Rome ca.

This satisfied him for another year, when an introduction to the foreman of some marble works, and the sight of a small head of Bacchus, unsettled him again.

Holding a marble sculpture head, the woman seems to be entering into a dream.

They are made of glass and sealed with a marble ; the codd head held in place by the pressure of the carbonation in the drink.

Una wrote to Julian that their mother's grave was " on a sunny hillside looking towards the east ... We had a head and footstone of white marble, with a place for flowers between, and Rose and I planted some ivy there that I had brought from America, and a periwinkle from papa's grave.

Many marble sculptures were found, including two archaic kouros head, a naked male statue, part of the Archaic period perirrantiriou inscribed with the inscription " Marda anethiken ".