The crema valencia is a marble with cream tones and intricate white and red colored veins that run throughout the marble surface.
Architecture with colored marble.
Architecture under shah jahan.
This detail allows this marble type to be used both indoors as well as outdoors.
To us classical antiquity means white marble.
The properties of marble and its uses.
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.
It is used for its beauty in architecture and sculpture.
Calacatta is a natural stone from italy.
The temples that housed them were in color also.
Historically color has always been seen as a status symbol and our collective tastes have definitely changed over the centuries.
It is a calcitic white marble.
Very few rocks have as many uses as marble.
It is used for its chemical properties in pharmaceuticals and agriculture.
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.
At agra the tomb of itmad ud daula completed in 1628 was built entirely of white marble and decorated in elaborate pietra dura mosaic an inlay technique of using cut and fitted highly polished colored stones to create images.