The use of sculpture dates back thousands of years. Ancient Greeks created stone sculpture and so did the ancient Egyptian culture. Early man created many things out of stone to have for religious rites and to represent various gods. These items today are in museums around the world and are quite remarkable and beautiful considering they were made 5,000 or more years ago.
1000bce
Phidias
he blinds the giant and the when the giant moves the stone door, Odysseus and his men hold the sheep above their heads. by doing this, the giant thinks the sheep are leaving.
Myron of Eleutherae sculpted the Discobolus.
They have been lost during the 2000 years since she was sculpted.
800 bce
800bc
There are around 900 Moai (stone heads) on Easter Island.
Because marble lasts longer than stone
Well, honey, Mount Rushmore was carved by a bunch of dudes with jackhammers and dynamite, while those Olmec heads were sculpted out of giant boulders using stone tools. One's a bunch of old white guys on a mountain, and the other is massive stone heads in the jungle. So, to sum it up, one's a patriotic monument and the other is a mysterious ancient art piece.
Plaster , concrete , marble ,alabaster, any stone that can be sculpted .
1000bce
On Stone Mountain, in Georgia, near Atlanta.
Mount Rushmore contains the sculpted heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.
I'm gonna go with stone.
Stone monolithic sculptures.
Many civilizations created stone heads, but the most impressive may have been the moai of Easter Island. However, to be honest, they aren't stone heads; they are just buried up to their necks! When excavated, they are a head and torso, down to the hips.