Pavonazzo marble

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Portrait of woman in Pavonazzo marble, Roman artwork - Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Statue of a in "pavonazzetto" (docimenum) marble (down part) in the court of Conservatori Palace in the Capitoline Museums. This sculpture was on the Arch of Constantine and it was taken away in the 18th century because of it had been ruined and replaced by a copy in white marble. Before it was in the Forum of Trajan.

Pavonazzo marble is a white marble from Italy.

The name derives from the Italian word for peacock (pavone). "In natural stone trade, Pavonazzo is often simply called a Marble."[1] It is one of the many varieties of Carrara marble, distinguished by black/gray-veined white marble.[2] Also referred to as "pavonazzetto", and distinguished as:

  1. Various red and purplish marbles and breccias.
  2. A marble, used by the ancient Romans, characterized by very irregular veins of dark red with bluish and yellowish tints.[3]

The marble has been used as the coffin of the remains of Saint Peter the Apostle, Pompeii, the Trajan's Markets, and internationally in the influential Baroque Revival-style historic buildings the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in New York City, and Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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  1. ↑ "Pavonazzo - a white Marble from Italy". Graniteland.com. 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2012-12-20. 
  2. ↑ "Stone Info | Granite Marble". Es.pavonazzo.italy.marble.stoneinfo.us. Retrieved 2012-12-20. 
  3. ↑ "pavonazzo, pavonazzeto: Information from". Answers.com. Retrieved 2012-12-20. 


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