This detail allows this marble type to be used both indoors as well as outdoors.
Architecture with colored marble.
It is used for its chemical properties in pharmaceuticals and agriculture.
Very few rocks have as many uses as marble.
Historically color has always been seen as a status symbol and our collective tastes have definitely changed over the centuries.
It is used for its beauty in architecture and sculpture.
The temples that housed them were in color also.
Not so to the greeks who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too.
This italian variety has lasted for centuries and is the protagonist of many relevant architectural projects dated in the period of classical rome the renaissance and the baroque.
It is used for its optical properties in cosmetics paint and paper.
It is a calcitic white marble.
Calacatta is a natural stone from italy.
It has a very peculiar chromatism in which broken white and very fine light grey veins are punctually dotted with tiny amber and golden notes.
The crema valencia is a marble with cream tones and intricate white and red colored veins that run throughout the marble surface.
Architecture under shah jahan.
To us classical antiquity means white marble.