The best was from naxos close grained and sparkling parian from paros with a rougher grain and more translucent and pentelic near athens more opaque and which turned a soft honey colour with age due to its iron content.
Female greek marble statues.
These are still symbols of how women portrayed as sex objects while those sculptures only showed women s intimate parts while on the other hand men sculptures showed their masculinity.
Early greek sculpture was most often in bronze and porous limestone but whilst bronze seems never to have gone out of fashion the stone of choice would become marble.
Many of the greek statues well known from roman marble copies were originally temple cult images which in some cases such as the apollo barberini can be credibly identified.
A 200 b c marble sculpture depicting the greek goddess nike the winged victory of samothrace is considered today as the greatest masterpiece of hellenistic sculpture.
It is currently displayed at louvre and is among the most celebrated original statues in the world.
Aphrodite kallipygos raising peplos greek statue replica 15h female nude g 040sm.
A very few actual originals survive for example the bronze piraeus athena 2 35 metres high including a helmet.
Greece kouros universal youth statue handsome beauty pearls coins.
2nd half of the 4th century b c.