Carved stone
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Incredibly shaped rocks in Hammersley Gorge, Karijini National Park/Western Australia Framing suggestion: / © aabz-imaging / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Hand drawn A2 image on cartridge paper with a G-Tec C4 0.4 pen probably took about a year to do, but I don’t pay attention to the time or the drawing until it is nearly complete. Just been looking to buy some more pens and found out the drawn line is only 0.2mm!
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New Artist on Arts-fine.co.uk
by Samuel DurkinI just took on a new artist at my online art gallery arts-fine.co.uk. The artist is Matthew Billington and h…
I just took on a new artist at my online art gallery arts-fine.co.uk. The artist is Matthew Billington and he is a sculptor working in stone. His Stone Carvings have a spiritual almost mythical ancient prehistoric feeling. A sort of Easter Island or even pagan magic to them that celebrates nature, stone and the standing stone monoliths of our ancestors. / Please do take a look at his Carved Stone Scupltures
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Ancient buddha stature, Dambulla, Sri Lanka Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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Stone Buddha statue, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka Iceland / Belgium / Italy / France / Hungary / Spain / Sri Lanka / USA / London / Portraits / Other
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apsara, angkor wat
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The Sidi Saiyyed mosque, built in 1573, is one of the most famous mosques of Ahmedabad. The mosque was built by Sidi Saiyyed, who was a slave of Sultan Ahmed Shah. The mosque was built in the last year of the Sultanate of Gujarat. The mosque is entirely arcuated. The mosque has ten screen windows (jalis) on the side and rear arches. The rear wall is filled with square stone pierced panels in geometrical designs. The two bays flanking the central aisle have reticulated stone slabs carved in designs of intertwined trees and foliage, a palm and parasite motif. This intricately carved stone window is called the Sidi Saiyyed Jali
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"PROPHECY"
by ArianeAcrylic paint on canvas board 18”X18” X 4 I found a woman carved into an ancient stone hidden in a dusty corner of a Cornish museum. / I brought the sketches I made back to Australia and had the idea to release the woman from the stone by painting the idea. / For me it became the story of the old religion forced into hiding and finally now being able to express itself again. /
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I had to practically fall in to get this perspective…..I just loved hoe the water carved out the rock and had such a force to the flow. I really enjoyed this part of Stoney Brook State Park, dansville NY. November 2008 with my Nikon D50/ 18-70 mm Nikon lens! / / /
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It was cold,windy and gray the day I took this pic .The sun was trying really hard to make an appearance but when it did it was a great help!
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“Ancient pain” was featured in the group European Everyday Life. This photo of the stone-carved Medusa head was taken in March 2005 in Didyma, Turkey, with a Canon PowerShot S20 camera. While Medusa is regarded as a scary, monstrous female figure, all I can see in the facial expression of this depiction of her is deep pain… maybe due to the rape which changed her life forever, turning her into her monstrous self. Following is information over both Didyma and Medusa, found in Wikipedia. Didyma (Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Ionian sanctuary, the modern Didim, Turkey, containing a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. To approach it, visitors would follow the Sacred Way to Didyma, about 17km long. Along the way, were ritual waystations, and statues of members of the Branchidae family, male and female, as well as animal figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC are now in the British Museum, taken by Charles Newton in the 19th century. / Wikipedia In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa), “guardian, protectress”) was a monstrous chthonic female character; gazing upon her would turn onlookers to stone. She was beheaded by the hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until giving it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. In classical antiquity and today, the image of the head of Medusa finds expression in the evil-averting device known as the Gorgoneion. She also has two gorgon sisters. While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born of monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century began to envisage her as a being both beautiful as well as terrifying. In an ode written in 490 BC Pindar already speaks of “fair-cheeked Medusa”. In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, “the jealous aspiration of many suitors,” priestess in Athena’s temple, but when she was raped by the “Lord of the Sea” Poseidon in Athena’s temple, the enraged goddess transformed her beautiful hair to serpents and she made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn a man to stone. In Ovid’s telling, Perseus describes Medusa’s punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved. In the majority of the versions of the story, while Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon, she was beheaded in her sleep by the hero Perseus, who was sent to fetch her head by King Polydectes of Seriphus. With help from Athena and Hermes, who supplied him with winged sandals, Hades’ cap of invisibility, a sword, and a mirrored shield, he accomplished his quest. The hero slew Medusa by looking at her reflection in the mirror instead of directly at her to prevent being turned into stone. When the hero severed Medusa’s head, from her neck two offspring sprang forth: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor who later became the hero wielding the golden sword. Medusa – Wikipedia
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This is captured on a small island in the Norwegian archipelago. The ice age shaped this landscape when the land was covered by glaciers. My work on flickr
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Carved word on a gray stone with a single pink tulip reflected in a mirror.
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This is a piece in a Garden in England, UK. Convex stone discs rest on carved wooden supports. Artist unknown.
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Sisters.
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Memorial Church at night in the Stanford Campus
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This huge stone stands about 10 foot high and was found buried in the churchyard at Rosemarkie, the Black Isle, Scotland. It dates back to the 9th century and was carved by the Picts, a race about which little is known. Many of the symbols on the stone appear on other Pictish stones but no-one has deciphered their meaning. The reverse side of the stone has a cross on it. This stone and many others can be seen at the charming small museum at Rosemarkie.
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This huge sandstone slab was intricately carved on both faces by the ancient Picts living in the north of Scotland between about 500 and 1000 AD. / During that time they were converted to Christianity and although nothing was written in their own language, they left a rich legacy in stone carvings, particularly these massive standing stones. / This one stood in the churchyard of Nigg Old Church until it blew over in a gale in 1727. It was then re-erected against the church wall but later had to be moved to access a burial vault. At that time the top was broken. It has now been erected inside a part of the church to protect it from the elements. / On this face the design is mostly of intricate patterns around a central cross, similar to the one on Iona. At the top are two beasts.
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Ardfern Scotland /
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Mistical Vault – Castle of Blois, France
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