alabaster
alabastron - A container for perfumed oil that takes its name from alabaster, the material from which the original Egyptian examples were made.
alabaster
A fine-grained, translucent variety of gypsum (calcium sulfate) used in sculpture. It may be pure white or streaked with reddish brown.
Alabaster: soft, fine grained translucent stone: white or pastel coloured gypsum, often with streaks of deeper colour: breaks and scratches easily ...
alabaster - A fine-grained, slightly translucent stone with a smooth milk-white surface.
Alabaster
A soft, pure white, translucent gypsum or calcium sulfate hydrate that can easily be cut or carved.
The Alabaster Chamber
Alfonso I d'Este (1486-1534), an astute military strategist, inherited the duchy of Ferrara in northeastern Italy. The young duke and his wife, Lucrezia Borgia, patronized authors and artists from throughout Italy.
Alabaster
A fine-textured, usually white, gypsum that is easily carved and translucent when thin.
Albany Slip ...
Sculpture in alabaster was developed on the scale of an industry. Ready-made panels were used to compose sarcophagi, tombs and altars.
Alabaster
In Antiquity, a carbonate of lime used in Egyptian sculpture, especially for small portable pieces.
Alabaster, Catalogue of Chinese Objects in the South Kensington Museum; Sir R.
Alabaster: A dense, translucent, white or tinted, fine-grained gypsum.
Alla Prima: A painting technique in which pigments are laid on in one application with little or no underpainting.
He viewed Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna, the "alabaser Marienbild, das Michelangelo von Rohm gemacht" (the alabaster Madonna which Michelangelo of Rome made), ...
[13] Nottingham alabaster carvings, produced in considerable quantities by workshops to standard patterns, were exported all over Western Europe to value-conscious parish churches.
Titian's fame had spread abroad, and Alfonso I d'Este sough thim as one of the chief masters in a cycle of mythological compositions for his newly rebuilt rooms called the Alabaster Chambers in the castle at Ferrara.
Gypsum alabaster, was more easily carved than the hard stones used by the Sumerians and Akkadians. Royal chronicles in battle and in the hunt were recounted in horizontal bands with cuneiform texts. At times mythological figures are portrayed.
His figures, in marble, alabaster and bronze of Bedouin women and Orthodox Jewish men in their distinctive garb are evocative representations of the human mystery and the complexity of the region claimed by two peoples.
 See also: Sculpture, Painting, Movement, Roman, Renaissance
  
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