Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Re: Marble Veils...F A N T A S T I C !!!!


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Suniti

These are simply fantastic !

Hcp


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On 30-May-2015, at 6:23 am, Suniti Desai <sdsunitidesai@gmail.com> wrote:
If these are really marble figures they are fantastic


Marble Veils...F A N T A S T I C !!!!!


To have the skill level to carve it in marble. This sculpture below, 
"The veiled virgin" is most impressive, notice the effect of transparency, 
from the Italian artist Giovanni Strazza of the nineteenth century.
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Think of the epic difficulty of modelling a veil on a face of a material that is among the 
toughest on the planet, marble (mineral hardness 3 - Friedrich Mohs scale). 
Another problem is that marble has nothing added. It is sculpture made by subtracting 100 %. 
Why say that to sculpt a figure, you take the block and "simply takes everything that is not his figure."


Other large sculptures that created beautiful marble veils:
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Think of the level of difficulty to carve without breaking it:
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This is a monument to the father of Prince Raimondo Sangro Antonio (1685-1757) 
The Italian name of the monument Disinganno is often translated as "disappointment" 
but not in the conventional sense of it and Church Slavonic - "Freedom of the spell." 
"Freedom of the spell" (after 1757 ) of Franschesko Kvirolo and is the most famous of his works, 
the ability to make this netting. All made of a single piece of marble and pumice, 
Kvirolo was the only Neapolitan master who accepted the challenge. Other great sculptors 
wouldnt, believing that the network would break into pieces. Amazing master sculptors for 
centuries the art of precise cutting of the stone.

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How about that texture of skin, Lorenzo Bernini, which depicts the abduction of Persephone? 
Look at the finger pressure on the skin.

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The sculptor was only 23 years old when he made it in 1621. Look at the detail.















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