| P number: | P576111 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Verde Antico, Greece. Marble Quarries, Island of Tinos. |
| Description: |
Label name: Verde Antico, Greece. Alternative name: Tinos. Specimen description: Dark green-black fragments. No Verde Antico stated in sources; M56 seems to resemble Greek marble W304, Tinos, best. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 304 TINOS (No. 3). Marble Quarries, Island of Tinos. This specimen is an example of one of the varieties of marble quarried in the Island of Tinos, one of the Cyclades. This marble is a green and black serpentinous rock, belonging to the group known geologically as ophicalcite. Tinos (or Tenos) was a favourite marble for monumental work in classical times. Later it is recorded that it was used by the Mahommedans for grave stones at Smyrna and Constantinople. The quarries fell into disuse and were abandoned for many centuries, but they have been reopened, and the marble is now used in London and elsewhere for decorative architecture. It is said to be suitable for columns, being strong in texture and taking a good polish; moreover it can be quarried in sound blocks up to twenty feet in length. It may be seen in the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral, London (1861). Sixteen columns in the semi-circular hall of the New Sessions House, London, built in 1907, are composed of it. The doorways of the new extension added to the National Gallery in 1911 are other examples of its use. It may also be seen in the altar of the Roman Catholic Church of All Souls, Peterborough (1912). Grecian Tinos is freely used in the United States of America. The internal columns of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, built in 1901, are composed of it. Some of these pillars are three feet in diameter. A good example of Tinos Marble may be seen in Cambridge. The facade of the business premises of Messrs Johnson in Sidney Street was decorated with it in 1914. This marble is better known on the Continent as Vert Tinos. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 316.57 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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