Large works of the archaic period were more or less all made from stone.
Why did the greeks use marble.
The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
Architectural sculpture was mostly marble ie statues stuck to the sides of buildings.
Gravestones statues and earth mounds were used to mark the grave and inscriptions were used to.
Limestone undergoes a process of recrystallization due to extreme pressure or temperature change to become marble.
In many cases these marble replicas are particularly important to art historians as many of the bronze muses are no longer in existence.
Hammers and wedges were used to release marble from the earth.
However the process of mining marble was quite lengthy.
As for the romans their buildings were mostly made out of brick however they so admired the aesthetics of marble from the ancient greek buildings that they would cover their brick buildings with a layer of marble for style.
Marble was everywhere wood and other materials were not.
They used marble for some of them.
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.
The sculpture of ancient greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient greek art as with the exception of painted ancient greek pottery almost no ancient greek painting survives.
The greeks often considered the best sculptors of antiquity favored marble and referred to it as shining stone marble occurs as a metamorphosis.
Ancient greeks are believed to be the culture that first used inscribed marble to mark their graves.
Initially though wood would have been used for not only such basic architectural elements as columns but the entire buildings themselves.
Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone.
The greeks certainly had a preference for marble at least for their public buildings.
Early 8th century bce temples were so constructed and had thatch roofs.
At all periods there were great numbers.
In the imperial roman period 31 bce 476 ad marble reproductions of bronze sculptures from greece became increasingly popular as rome s conquest of greece by the first century bc subjected roman artistic taste to the influence of greek style the british museum.