Artifacts – Other Artifacts

The impossible sculptural feats within the Sansevero Chapel Museum in Naples will take your breath away. Amongst them, the famed statue known as Il Disinganno, was carved out of one single block of marble. But, who created it and why? The Mysteries of Marble and its Use by Ancient Sculptors Since ancient times people have impressed their imaginations into wood and stone using a range of tools crafted from the same two substances. Soapstone and alabaster are the softest stones to carve, while granite and marble represent the hardest, and this is why in history these two substrates were only ever carved by the very best time-served sculptors. Composed primarily of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, marble is a metamorphic rock