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	marble - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Marbles range in color from snow-white to gray and fl, many varieties being some shade of red, yellow, pink, green, or buff; the colors, which are caused by the presence of impurities, are frequently arranged in bands or patches and add to the beauty of the stone when it is cut and polished.
		Marble is used as a material in statuary and monuments, as a facing stone in buildings and residences, and for pillars, colonnades, paneling, wainscoting, and floor tiles.
		Marble was extensively used by the ancient Greeks; the Parthenon and other famous buildings were constructed of white Pentelic marble from Mt. Pentelicus in Attica, and the finest statues, e.g., the Venus de' Medici, from the remarkably lustrous Parian marble from Paros in the Cyclades.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-marble.html (484 words)

	Paros
		The island is composed of marble, though gneiss and mica-schist are to be found in a few places.
		On this headland stands an abandoned monastery of St Anthony[?], amidst the ruins of a medieval castle, which belonged to the Venetian family of the Venieri[?], and was gallantly though fruitlessly defended against the Turkish general Barbarossa in 1537.
		Parian marble[?], which is white and semi-transparent, with a coarse grain and a very beautiful texture, was the chief source of wealth to the island.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paros.html (1073 words)

	Marble - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Marble is capable of taking a high polish and is used principally for statuary and for building purposes.
		The distinctive luster of statuary marble is caused by light penetrating a short distance into the stone and then being reflected from the surfaces of inner crystals.
		Parian marble, also used by ancient Greek sculptors and architects, was quarried chiefly at Mount Parpessa on the Grecian island of Paros.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761576512__1/Marble.html (394 words)

	Parian marble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parian marble is a fine-grained semitranslucent pure-white marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros.
		Some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture were carved from Parian marble, including the Medici Venus and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
		Another meaning for Parian Marble is a tablet, otherwise known as the Parian Chronicle or the Marmor Parium, which is the earliest extant example of a Greek chronological table.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parian_marble (181 words)

	PAROS: Parian Marble
		The marble from Paros, lychnite, is startlingly white and was sought after during the classical age of Greece for the finest works.
		But Parian marble was not known only to the Greeks, the lychnite was an important part of ancient wonders, statues and palaces in Athens, Rome and Egypt.
		The Parian Chronicle, dating from the 3rd century, was discovered in the walls of the kastro in the 17th century by the cleric to the Duke of Arundel.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Paros/paros-interest-marble.html (265 words)

	Marble Sculpture: Tools of the Trade - Art History
		Marble sculpture is one of the most beautiful creations of antiquity and is still created today.
		Marble is actually composed of limestone (calcium carbonate) that has been transformed into calcite by heat within the earth and the presence of carbonic acid present in rainwater.
		One of the most prized types of marble is Parian marble which has been quarried from the Greek island of Paros.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art35817.asp (763 words)

	"An Introduction to Parian." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Parian was ideally suited for this and from the very first piece made, a copy of the Duke of Sunderland’s marble ‘Apollo as the shepherd boy of Admetus’, this was to be its major use.
		The ‘Statuary Parian’ was ideally suited for slip casting and was quickly adopted for other forms of decorative ware that traditionally use that process but it was not really suitable for hollow ware pressing and a second version know as ‘Standard Parian’ was introduced in 1844 by Meigh and Sons of Hanley.
		Statuary Parian achieves a pleasant natural semi gloss sheen that would not benefit from glaze but the new ‘Standard’ Parian fired with a matt finish that was unpleasant.
	www.abcir.org /parianintro.html (1405 words)

	Marble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Marble is a granular limestone or dolomite that has been recrystallized under the influence of heat, pressure, and aqueous solutions.
		Marbles are massive rather than layered and consist of a mosaic of interlocking calcite grains.
		Most of the white and gray marbles of Alabama, Georgia, and western New England are recrystallized rocks, as are a number of Greek and Italian statuary marbles famous from antiquity.
	geology.csupomona.edu /alert/metamorphic/marble.htm (366 words)

	Paros Travel - Information on Paros - Antiparos islands, Cyclades, Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The marble quarries, the quarries of the ancient Parian marble are in Marathi, which is in the area of Kostos.
		The transparency of the Parian marble was so great that it is said to be among the symbols that led to the conception of the divine, even during the first centuries of Christianity.
		The marble was exploited from these ancient times up until the 7th century A.C. It was 'rediscovered' after centuries of lying dormant, and in the 19th century the exploitation started once again.
	www.goparos.gr /english/infos.asp?idInfos=4 (719 words)

	ArtLex on Marble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Victory, 1527-28?, marble, height 8 feet 6 3/4 inches (261 cm), width 2 feet 7 1/8 inches, depth 2 feet 9 inches, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
		Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
		Cupid and Psyche, 1796, marble, height 137 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/m/marble.html (1030 words)

	Antique English Victorian Parian 1
		It was a creamy, white, biscuit, porcelain-like body, usually unglazed; made to simulate marble and to be a substitute for the biscuit porcelain of Sevres.
		Parian was widely used for figures, table wares and jugs.
		Parian is a cross between porcelain and stoneware.
	www.tudorhouse.com /parian1.htm (136 words)

	white statuary marble
		The marble was derived from the quarries of Mount Pentelicus in Attica.
		This marble occurs abundantly in the Apuan Alps, an offshoot of the Apennines, and is largely worked in the neighbourhood of Carrara, Massa and Serravezza.
		Much of the common marble is of a bluish colour, and therefore unfit for statuary purposes; when streaked with blue and grey veins the stone is known as Bardiglio.
	www.francoermarmista.com /antique_marble/statuary.htm (616 words)

	Parian Arts - The world's finest Statuary porcelain. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Parian is here to stay because it is a medium that can infuse divinity in sculpted pieces, in the delicacy of muted shades because of the Nanji brothers,
		Parian originated from the word Paros - a beautiful and picturesque island in Greece by a crystal clear sea and its beaches could take one's breath away.
		The brothers choose pastoral themes and draw their inspiration from famous classical parian figures like 'Erci awakening from the slumbers', as Irish Colleen with sharmrocks - in her hands a harp and a urn and also the 'Prison of Loce' a despondent female amongst doves and dead flowers.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /meyyappan/deyalistatesman.html (697 words)

	Welcome to Trade International, Inc. -- Articles
		Hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of white Pentelic marble or the white marble of Zasteni Magnissia, or the bright-white of Paros, known as "Lykhnitis" which were quarried and used by the ancient Greeks and Romans, to create the masterpieces of sculpture Pheidias, Hermes of Praxitelis and many others.
		From the ancient quarries of white marble in the mountains of Penteli, Pentelico marble was used for the Parthenon, constructed in 447-432 B.C., the Erechtheus and the Propylaea on the Acropolis of Athens.
		The fl marble of Farsala, the grey of Larisa, the white of Volos, the rose of Pteleos Volos are among some extracted from the Larisa-Volos regions.
	jbmatthews.home.mindspring.com /articles_greekspeech.html (2314 words)

	Paros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		White, semitransparent Parian marble (Paria Marmara), used for sculpture and quarried from subterranean pits on the north side of Mt. Marpessa, was the chief source of wealth for ancient Paros.
		In the 7th century BC Parian colonies were sent to Thasos and to Parium on the Sea of Marmara and in 385 to the island of Pharos (Hvar, Croatia) in the Adriatic.
		The marble, which was exported from the 6th century BC, and used by Praxiteles and other great Greek sculptors, was obtained by means of subterranean quarries driven horizontally or at a descending angle into the rock, and the marble thus quarried by lamplight got the name of Lychnites, Lychneus (from lvchnos, a lamp), or Lygdos
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /ancgreece/kebedys.htm (3164 words)

	Parian Ware--Affordable Art for the Masses
		Until the arrival of Parian, sculpture was primarily the domain of royalty and the wealthy.
		Queen Victoria surrounded herself with marble statues of her children and commissioned a statue of her beloved Prince Albert attired, surprisingly, as a Roman.
		Since many collectors of porcelain regard Parian as too austere in its marble-like whiteness and not of the high quality of pure porcelain, interest in it by dealers is low.
	www.theantiquesalmanac.com /parian.htm (2293 words)

	Parian
		Parian is the name given to the white biscuit porcelain primarily associated with figure modeling.
		The name derives from its close similarity to the white marble mined on the island of Paros in the Aegean Sea.
		Even now the makings of parian figures is a highly skilled craft, so in the early days of its development it would have been still more difficult, particularly in regard to temperature control in the coal-fired ovens.
	www.ladymarion.co.uk /book/parian (472 words)

	Paros, Greece, Greek islands
		Later on, the Parian marble was to be used in Delphi, Delos and the temple of
		They traded their marble with the Phoenicians, and until the 6th century BC they had great power in the Aegean sea, with colonies on Thassos and other places.
		Marble from the island in various shapes, local wine and embroideries are nice present for yourself or friends.
	www.in2greece.com /english/places/summer/islands/paros.htm (1031 words)

	Garden Map
		Carved in 343 B.C. from white Parian marble, this work by Praxiteles is the only sculpture which survives today that can be attributed to one of the six great Greek masters.
		Marble Bust of Homer The bust of the author of The Illiad and The Odyssey is an artist’s concept of how the blind poet may have looked and not an actual portrait, as it was done centuries after Homer’s death.
		Carved of Parian marble during the 2nd Century B.C. by an unidentified sculptor the work as discovered in 1820 on the Greek island of Melos.
	www.jasminehill.org /map.html (2704 words)

	Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Marble is a word loosely applied among masons and in the building trade to any hard limestone which can be sawn into thin slabs and will take a good polish so that it is suitable for decorative work, and in a stricter sense to metamorphosed limestones whose structure has been recrystallized by heat or pressure.
		Marbles are widely disseminated and occur in a great variety of colours and patterns, but certain types have been particularly prized by sculptors.
		Parian marble was used for the celebrated Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
	www.noteaccess.com /MATERIALS/Marble.htm (269 words)

	Visions Fine Art Gallery - Sedona Arizona - Gaylord Ho
		Parian II is a material that was created by Gaylord and the foundry through years of long hard work and experimentation.
		Parian II creates a warm smooth sculpture that looks; feels and is as durable as marble.
		Parian II allows a classical interpretation of the original sculpture in a medium that is less expensive than bronze or hand carved marble.
	www.visionsfineart.com /ho/aa_index.html (206 words)

	paros greece, paros island history
		In 708 B.C. a group of Parians colonised the island of Thasos, which was rich in deposits of various matals.
		Among the triumphs of Parian marble, one could mention the temple of Apollo on Delos, Praxiteles' statue of Hermes at Olympia, the Venus of Milos,and the temples of Demeter and Asklepios on Paros itself.
		During the later one the Parians were lucky enouh to escape the worst effects of the Hydra-headed Ottoman taxation system, and even managed to get discounts on the tax they were forced to pay.
	www.greekislands.com /paros/history.htm (700 words)

	THE MARBLES OF AEGINA I
		These figures in Parian marble once adorned the pediments of Athene's temple, of which the crumbling columns on the heights of Aegina still overlook the blue waters of the Saronic Gulf.
		These Greek marbles, on the contrary, with that figure yearning forward so graciously to the fallen leader, are deeply impressed with a natural pathetic effect the true reflection again of the temper of Homer in speaking of war.
		The profiles are still not yet of the fully developed Greek type, but have a somewhat sharp prominence of nose and chin, as in Etrurian design, in the early sculpture of Cyprus, and in the earlier Greek vases; and the general proportions of the body in relation to the shoulders are still somewhat archaically slim.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/visarts/vraguin/classes/pater.htm (1074 words)

	Erkyna Travel in Paros,Paros based Travel agent for all Cyclades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Trade began to develop between the Parians and the Phoenicians and Paros turned into a major maritime power which by the 8th century B.C. controlled sea communications in the Aegean, in the North and along the coast of Thrace.
		In 708 B.C. a group of Parians colonized the island of Thasos, which was rich in deposits of various metals.
		During the later one the Parians were lucky enough to escape the worst effects of the Hydra-headed Ottoman taxation system, and even managed to get discounts on the tax they were forced to pay.
	www.erkynatravel.com /islands/paros.htm (1004 words)

	Parian Chronicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Parian Marble (or Parian Chronicle or Marmor Parium) is a Greek chronological table, covering the years from 1581 BC to 264 BC.
		It is considered one of the Arundel Marbles.
		The phrase Parian marble is also sometimes used to describe the type of marble used for the chronicle, and for many popular sculptures (for example, the Praxiteles statue of Hermes, and the Venus de Milo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parian_Chronicle (162 words)

	Grave stele of a little girl [Greek] (27.45) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The stele was found in 1775 on the Greek island of Paros, one of the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea.
		Parian marble was highly prized in antiquity, and is still considered one of the finest marbles for carving sculpture.
		The restrained beauty of this figure brings to mind the youths carved on the frieze that encircles the outer walls of the Parthenon, one of the many buildings erected on the Athenian Akropolis in the mid-fifth century B.C. under the Greek statesman Perikles.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/dbag/hod_27.45.htm (359 words)

	Parian Arts - The world's finest Statuary porcelain. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At a show in the city, from September 20 to 23, at Island Grounds, the best of Parian porcelain will be showcased.
		Parian originated from the word Paros - an idyllic island in Greece.
		Parian marble is known for its clarity, and the Nanji Brothers have painstakingly worked on the medium to create exquisite pieces of art.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /meyyappan/deyalihindu09202001.html (124 words)

	Civilization.ca - 19th-century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada - Parian
		Of all ceramic ornaments none achieved greater popularity than those produced in a Staffordshire-invented porcelain that came to be called parian (after marble from the Greek Island of Paros).
		The potter must have had an extensive trade with Canada; other parian items with his initials (sentimental groups, for example, and figures of children) were often found when the contents of some Victorian house were being sold off.
		The rarest parian item in the Museum's collection was made not in England but in Canada itself.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/poterie/po10eng.html (367 words)

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