#granite sculpture

[blueiscoool]

EGYPTIAN GRANITE HEAD OF A DIGNITARY NEW KINGDOM, 1552-1069 B.C.

[vintagehomecollection]

Sandi Samole, ASID, IDG, S & B Interiors, Inc.

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[egypt-museum]

Face of Amenhotep II

The faces on most statues of Amenhotep II differ slightly from those of his two immediate predecessors. Compared with the sculpture of Thutmose III or Hatshepsut exhibited nearby, for example, this statue’s face is a little longer, the eyes somewhat narrower, the brows a bit straighter, the nose slightly thicker, and the mouth less curved.

This face is not a portrait, but an official image conceived by the chief royal sculptors to communicate the ideal physical appearance of Amenhotep II. The Egyptians believed that reality was momentary and thus, within the context of eternity, meaningless. Only an ideal representation would endure forever.

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1426-1400 BC. Now in the Brooklyn Museum. 56.7

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[theaskew]

Teodors Zaļkalns (Latvian, 1876–1972), Cūka (Pig), 1937. Granite, 70 x 41 x 80 cm. (Source: Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia)

[abstracteddistractions]

Isamu Noguchi, "Quasite,"

Aji Granite, 28,5 x 20,3 x 21,5 cm.

Courtesy: Christie's

[bwwhitney]

Sculptures created in granite blocks as part of http://www.rockfirevt.com/

[fromthedust]

Queen Arsinoe II (278–270 BCE) - granodiolite - 150 cm high - Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BCE

The eldest daughter of Ptolemy I. She married her brother Ptolemy II (285–246 BC), her junior by eight years. He proclaimed himself Philadelphus, ‘he who loves his sister’, and she became Philadelphia, ‘she who loves her brother’. Both were to become ‘the Philadelphic gods’.

Ptolemy II promoted the worship of his sister-wife after her death in 270 BCE. Worshipped by Egyptians and Greeks alike, she was became part of Egyptian cult and temples, and was often identified by Egyptians as Isis, the mother goddess and a patron of magic. As the mistress of the seas, Arsinoe II also enjoyed a specific type of apotheosis: she was Aphrodite incarnate. This sculpture was located in a temple within the city of Canopus.

[contremineur]

Egyptian bust of a man (granite, Late Period 664-404 BC)

An inscription along the proper right edge reads [...] white bread which is presented, produce of the land and every boundary (?). An inscription across seven vertical lines of hieroglyphs along the back reads [...] making all (sorts of) beautiful offerings [...] in every festival of the month [...] in every festival of the half-month (?) [...] in [...] offerings [...] Wab-priest [...] crocodile (?) […] the horizon […] An inscription along the top edge reads [...] the palace (or temple) which is in […] his divinity.

image and adapted text from here

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[blueiscoool]

Sphinx of Hatshepsut New Kingdom. Dynasty 18. Ca. 1479–1458 B.C. Granite. H: 164 cm (64 9/16 in.); L: 343 cm (135 1/16 in.); Wt: 6758.6 kg (14900 lb.).

This colossal sphinx portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard. The sculptor has carefully observed the powerful muscles of the lion as contrasted to the handsome, idealized face of the pharaoh. It was one of at least six granite sphinxes that stood in Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.

The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 131.

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[mahgnib]

Brahmani, female counterpart to Brahma, granite, circa 950 AD. Presumably, there is a fourth head on the back.

[hemorrhage]

Sculpture garden in the outskirts of downtown San Francisco

[holmesoldfellow]

"Sherlock and Segar" sculpture of Elzie Segar as Sherlock Holme in Chester, IL, USA, the first permanent statue of the detective in the US and first life size granite sculpture of the detective

[fromthedust]

Alina Szapocznikow (Polish, 1926-1973)

Noga (Leg) - black Swedish granite, bronze - 1967

Noga (Leg) - black Swedish granite, plaster - 1965