800 bce
Because marble lasts longer than stone
The statue of David was sculpted in 1501-1504.
First Donatello sculpted two Davids. Then Verrocchio sculpted one. Then Michelangelo sculpted one. Which do you mean by 'the second'?
, it is thought that the monuments represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers.
Rodin
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
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.
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.