1. Sculpture - Woman Aflame and Apollo and Daphne
Among the commonly available stones, only marble has a slight surface translucency like human skin giving a realistic effect. Bernini starts with knocking off large portions of unwanted stone. ... Once the general form has come together, a toothed chisels or a claw chisel with many gouging surfaces would create parallel lines on the stone creating texture. Tools named rasps, a flat steel tool with a coarse surface and rifflers, smaller version of a raft used to create detail such as hair are used to enhance the shape into its final form by using sweeping motions removing excess stone as dust. ...
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