Carving marble with traditional tools

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Video from the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Watch a sculptor demonstrate the use of traditional tools—such as the tooth chisel, the point chisel, the drill, and the rasp—as he creates a finished figure from a block of marble.

Cite this page as: The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Carving marble with traditional tools," in Smarthistory, December 20, 2015, accessed January 23, 2022, https://smarthistory.org/carving-marble-with-traditional-tools/.