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Botticino & Calacatta are Italian varieties of this metamorphic rock |
marble
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$1,200 |
DJ |
GEOLOGY |
2022-04-18 |
#8621 |
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The Carrara quarries in Tuscany are prized for this rock used by Michelangelo for his "Pieta" |
marble
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$400 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
2016-04-01 |
#7270 |
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Statuario is a slightly translucent type of this used in fine statuary |
marble
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$400 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
2014-10-22 |
#6923 |
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Carrara, Italy is famous for its quarries of this rock |
marble
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$1,600 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
2009-03-17 |
#5652 |
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This rock from Georgia was used to sculpt the statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial |
marble
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$400 |
DJ |
GEOLOGY |
2004-09-13 |
#4601 |
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Michelangelo used this statuary rock from Carrara, Italy for many of his works |
marble
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$200 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
2003-10-31 |
#4405 |
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Mount Pentelikon in Attica, Greece is known for the pentelic type of this statue material |
marble
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$1,200 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
2003-01-01 |
#4223 |
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A 50-ton block of this rock from Colorado was used to create the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
marble
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$400 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1995-05-08 |
#2471 |
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Much of this stone used by Michelangelo for his sculptures came from Carrara, Italy |
marble
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$100 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1994-04-22 |
#2230 |
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This rock used in building the Lincoln Memorial was supplied by Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee & Alabama |
marble
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$400 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1993-03-04 |
#1964 |
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The ancient Greeks built the Parthenon in Athens using this stone from Mount Pentelicus |
marble
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$600 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1992-10-23 |
#1870 |
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Connemara, Ireland is famous for the green-streaked variety of this stone |
marble
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$2,000 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1990-08-11 |
#9 |
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The Carrera type of this is from Italy, Pentelic from Greece & Yule from Colorado |
marble
DD
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$500 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1990-06-01 |
#1340 |
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This mineral used by Michelangelo for his sculptures was supplied by the Carrara quarry in Tuscany |
marble
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$200 |
DJ |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1990-04-05 |
#1299 |
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Limestone metamorphoses into this rock which is then often transformed into sculptures |
marble
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$500 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1988-04-01 |
#835 |
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Michelangelo's David didn't get his hard body by working out, but by being carved out of this rock |
marble
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$100 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1987-05-06 |
#628 |
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Largest block ever found of it in U.S., 56 tons, was used for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
marble
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$300 |
J |
ROCKS & MINERALS |
1985-11-13 |
#308 |