Add to ORKGAlabaster is a rock with low hardness, high coherence, fine-crystalline development and forms an optically “warm” surface when polished. It has been used as a sculpting, decorative and architectonic stone, often by civilizations of the Mediterranean Sea Basin. Alabaster in the architecture and sculpture of Kraków is mainly from the Middle Miocene (Badenian) and comes from deposits within the Ukrainian Carpathian Foredeep Basin, chiefly along its northern margin in the “Podolia rim”. It was quarried around the mid-part of the Dnister River and its tributaries, from Lviv (Lwów) to Khotyn (Chocim), and mostly at Zhuravno (Żurawno). The alabaster quarried here was called Ruthenian, Polish, or Lvov “marble”. Small quarries were also located at t...
The term alabaster is often applied only to compact, translucent gypsum, but sometimes it also denot...
Buildings are the evidence of a city’s wealth. Wieliczka achieved its economic significance through ...
In many sacral and lay buildings of Cracow can be found animalistic stony sculptures of the apotropa...
Alabaster stone (alabaster) or calcite, which is the geological name of transparent alabaster, as it...
W zbiorach Muzeum XX. Czartoryskich w Krakowie znajdują się cztery alabastrowe reliefy, którym nie p...
The early mediaeval period witnessed a considerable breakdown in masonry techniques and in architect...
The text makes up the second part of the paper presented in the previous issue of ‘Quart’ quarterly....
Cut in Alabaster is the first comprehensive study of alabaster sculpture in Western Europe during th...
Alabaster was highly valued by the Romans, but the trade, origin, quarries and distribution of this ...
The paper discusses the issue of artistic attitudes towards traditional materials in the era of cruc...
Alabaster is a white and pure gypsum rock classically used in sculptures or for ornamental purposes,...
This article explores documentary sources that elucidate the supply of alabaster used for sculpture ...
The term alabaster is often applied only to compact, translucent gypsum, but sometimes it also deno...
There is no consistency in reporting the stone material used to construct the first structures in th...
Alabaster - eine besondere Varietät von Gips, die sich in bedeutenden historischen Werken der Bildha...
The term alabaster is often applied only to compact, translucent gypsum, but sometimes it also denot...
Buildings are the evidence of a city’s wealth. Wieliczka achieved its economic significance through ...
In many sacral and lay buildings of Cracow can be found animalistic stony sculptures of the apotropa...
Alabaster stone (alabaster) or calcite, which is the geological name of transparent alabaster, as it...
W zbiorach Muzeum XX. Czartoryskich w Krakowie znajdują się cztery alabastrowe reliefy, którym nie p...
The early mediaeval period witnessed a considerable breakdown in masonry techniques and in architect...
The text makes up the second part of the paper presented in the previous issue of ‘Quart’ quarterly....
Cut in Alabaster is the first comprehensive study of alabaster sculpture in Western Europe during th...
Alabaster was highly valued by the Romans, but the trade, origin, quarries and distribution of this ...
The paper discusses the issue of artistic attitudes towards traditional materials in the era of cruc...
Alabaster is a white and pure gypsum rock classically used in sculptures or for ornamental purposes,...
This article explores documentary sources that elucidate the supply of alabaster used for sculpture ...
The term alabaster is often applied only to compact, translucent gypsum, but sometimes it also deno...
There is no consistency in reporting the stone material used to construct the first structures in th...
Alabaster - eine besondere Varietät von Gips, die sich in bedeutenden historischen Werken der Bildha...
The term alabaster is often applied only to compact, translucent gypsum, but sometimes it also denot...
Buildings are the evidence of a city’s wealth. Wieliczka achieved its economic significance through ...
In many sacral and lay buildings of Cracow can be found animalistic stony sculptures of the apotropa...