The museum exhibits include tapestries from the sixteenth century given by Robert de Lenoncourt ( who died in 1532 ), marble capitals from the fourth century AD, furniture, jewellery, pottery, weapons and glasswork from the 6th to 8th century, medieval sculpture, the façade of the 13th-century Musicians ' House, remnants from an earlier abbey building, and also exhibits of Gallo-Roman arts and crafts and a room of pottery, jewellery, and weapons from Gallic civilization, as well as an exhibit of items from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic periods.

The transept entrance has granite columns with marble capitals from the 5th century AD.

The façade, in Veronese pink marble and gilted stone, is horizontally parted by a gallery that dominates the three gates, decorated with capitals and Romanic statues.

One of these, known as Shaykh Ibrahim Abi Arqub, included marble columns and capitals in the iwan.

The arches are supported by marble columns with Corinthian capitals, which were retrieved from devastated ancient monuments.

The presbytery has a high altar with ciborium, set on a marble base with three steps, surmounted by a canopy supported by four red marble columns with Corinthian capitals, octagonal pyramid in two sections held up a total of 48 columns of the same marble, very similar to that in the Basilica of San Nicola di Bari.

Much fine external marble has been removed over the centuries, and there are capitals from some of the pilasters in the British Museum.

The Corinthian capitals of white marble were carved in Carrara, Italy.

Estimates of the materials used include one million cubic meters of marble from Transylvania, most from Ruşchiţa ; 3, 500 tonnes of crystal — 480 chandeliers, 1, 409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured ; 700, 000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals ; of wood, over 95 % of which is domestic, for parquet and wainscoting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore maple ; of woolen carpets of various dimensions, the larger of which were woven on-site by machines moved into the building ; velvet and brocade curtains adorned with embroideries and passementeries in silver and gold .< ref >

On entering the cathedral the visitor who knows Saint Mark ’ s in Venice, or the churches of Constantinople, will note the absence of a spacious and well lighted outer narthex, comprising all the main entrances ; but this is soon forgotten in view of the fine proportions of the nave, and the marble columns, with capitals of Byzantine type, that support the galleries and other subsidiary parts of the building.

The columns are of white marble with brass capitals supporting slightly pointed arches, built of black and white stones.

The Athenian marble columns supporting the nave are even older, and either come from the first basilica, or from another antique Roman building ; thirty-six are marble and four granite, pared down, or shortened to make them identical by Ferdinando Fuga, who provided them with identical gilt-bronze capitals.

Columns with Corinthian capitals and sections of finished marble revetment, discovered on the nearby hillside at Stani, belong probably to the Temple of Minerva or to the Capitolium.

The upper level, had marble capitals, which were scattered after the closure of the monastery during the French Revolution.

The arches themselves are fixed between marble pilasters whose capitals depict the symbols of France.

The central area, where is the basin of the font, is an octagon around which stand eight porphyry columns, with marble capitals and entablature of classical form ; outside these are an ambulatory and outer walls forming a larger octagon.

Surviving original interior include detailing in wood, plaster, iron, bronze and marble, including a mosaic floor laid by Jacomo Bespirt and family, columns with plaster capitals, faux-marble finishes, woodwork, wrought-iron grotesques and gas lamp standards, and door knobs bearing the city ’ s old coat of arms.

The interior, with white marble columns and Byzantine capitals, is surprisingly plain compared with the exterior.

Adam added detailed marble chimneypieces, shuttering doors and doorways in the Drawing Room, along with fluted columns with Corinthian capitals.

The columns in the central nave, in African marble, had Corinthian capitals and friezes with deeds from the history of Republican Rome.

The columns in the second row were in cipolline marble and, finally, the external ones had Ionic capitals.

The curving benches are broken, chipped, tumbled, but still in place, as are the marble chairs, the seats of honor for the legislators.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.

Walnut, wormy chestnut, pecan, three varieties of burl, hand-woven Philippine cane, ceramic tiles, marble are used to emphasize the feeling of texture and of permanence, the furniture to fit into rooms with tiled floors, brick or paneled walls, windows that bring in the outdoors.

It is a slab of white marble long, wide, and thick, on which are 5 groups of markings.

Many of the islands are volcanic, and marble and iron are mined on other islands.

In the market marble columns are decorated with spiral ornaments ; there are huge paved precincts.

In his ninth year he executed two small shrines of Carrara marble, which are still extant.

There are a number of interesting monuments, most notably that of Prior Vivian which was formerly in the Priory Church ( Thomas Vivian's effigy lying on a chest: black Catacleuse stone and grey marble ).

Chalk, marble, and limestone are all forms of calcium carbonate.

Solutional caves are the most frequently occurring caves and such caves form in rock that is soluble, such as limestone, but can also form in other rocks, including chalk, dolomite, marble, salt, and gypsum.

Copper cables, petroleum products, leather, medical equipment, marble, gypsum, ceramic tiles, salt, mineral water and beverages, meat products, and gums are produced nearby.

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

Current marble exports are estimated at $ 15 million per year.

These rocks are largely igneous in origin, mixed with metamorphosed marble, quartzite and mica schist and intruded by later basaltic dykes and granite magma.

Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, and marble are the most extensively extracted minerals in Haiti.

Lime and aggregates and to a lesser extent marble are extracted.

There are also quarries of black marble, limestone flags, clay schist, and granite.

In the book Imperfect garden: the legacy of humanism, humanist philosopher Tzvetan Todorov identifies individualism as an important current of socio-political thought within modernity and as examples of it he mentions Michel de Montaigne, François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Sade, and Charles Baudelaire In La Rochefoucauld, he identifies a tendency similar to stoicism in which " the honest person works his being in the manner of an sculptor who searches the liberation of the forms which are inside a block of marble, to extract the truth of that matter.

Brahms venerated Beethoven: in the composer's home, a marble bust of Beethoven looked down on the spot where he composed, and some passages in his works are reminiscent of Beethoven's style.

Limestone and ( to a lesser extent ) marble are reactive to acid solutions, making acid rain a significant problem to the preservation of artifacts made from this stone.

The characteristic swirls and veins of many colored marble varieties are usually due to various mineral impurities such as clay, silt, sand, iron oxides, or chert which were originally present as grains or layers in the limestone.