Carving

Shaping, marking, or decorating wood, stone, or another material by cutting or incising, typically using tools such as chisels and other blades.

Basics Works of Art

Carving

Shaping, marking, or decorating wood, stone, or another material by cutting or incising, typically using tools such as chisels and other blades.

Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

Carving marble with traditional tools

The art of gem carving

Gandharan sculpture

Origins of rock art in Africa

Assyrian sculpture

Chinese Buddhist cave shrines

Olmec Jade

Chinese jade, an introduction

Quarrying and carving marble

Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa

The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece

Donatello’s marble carving technique

Works of Art

A 5th-century Nubian chest: rethinking artistic centers in late antiquity

4th–6th century C.E.

Donatello, Annunciation

1433–35

So-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus

late 2nd century B.C.E.

King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen

2490–2472 B.C.E.

Mahmoud Moukhtar, The Bride of the Nile

1929

Michelangelo, Pietà

1498–1500

Hōryūji

founded 607, rebuilt c. 693–710

Teaching guide: Saxman Totem Park and the New Deal in Alaska

originally carved in the 19th century, recarved c. 1940

first carved 1880s, recarved c. 1940

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