sandstone

Examples of sandstone in the following topics:

• Sculpture in Southeast Asia

  • This civilization left an impressive artistic legacy consisting primarily of sandstone sculptures, both in the round and in relief.
  • The Cham created freestanding sandstone sculptures in the round, as well as high and bas-relief carvings of sandstone.
  • The Birth of Brahma, sandstone relief, My Son, Vietnam, 7th century

• Champa Art in Early Vietnam

  • The artistic legacy of Champa consists primarily of sandstone sculptures, both freestanding and in relief, and brick buildings.
  • The Cham were famous for both their freestanding sandstone statues and their relief carvings, with some preference for the latter.
  • 10th century Cham sculpture, sandstone.

• The Southwest

  • Southwest architecture includes cliff dwellings (multi-story settlements carved from living rock), pit houses, and adobe and sandstone pueblos.
  • One of the most elaborate and largest ancient settlements is Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, which includes 15 major complexes of sandstone and timber.

• Architecture of the Mughal Period

  • Akbari architecture is also remarkable for its large scale use of sandstone, evident both in the construction of Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's royal city, and Akbar's own tomb in Sikandra.
  • Commissioned in 1562 by Humayun's wife, Hamida Banu Begum, and designed by a Persian architect, Humayun's Tomb was the first garden tomb on the Indian subcontinent and the first structure to use red sandstone on such a large scale.
  • Aurangzeb was responsible for additions to the Lahore Fort: building one of the 13 gates, which was named for him, and building the Badshahi mosque, a structure constructed from brick with red sandstone facades.

• Hindu Rajput Kingdoms

  • The temples were built from sandstone, without mortar, and the stones are held in place solely by gravity.
  • Built from yellow sandstone, it shines honey gold at sunset and is, consequently, also known as the Golden Fort.

• Art in the Early Dynastic Period

  • Open-air temple buildings of the central government were constructed of wood or sandstone.
  • Media ranged from papyrus drawings to pictographs (hieroglyphics) and included funerary sculpture carved in relief and in the round from sandstone, quartz diorite, and granite.

• The Nile River

  • High-quality building stones were abundant: the ancient Egyptians quarried limestone all along the Nile valley, granite from Aswan, and basalt and sandstone from the wadis (valleys) of the eastern desert.

• Maurya Dynasty

  • He is famous for ordering that his edicts be carved into stones and caves around the empire and, later, for ordering that his edicts be carved into large sandstone pillars topped with statues of lions, known as the Pillars of Ashoka.

• Southern Style Temples in Southeast Asia

  • This style of architecture consists primarily of temples with pyramid-shaped towers constructed of sandstone, soapstone, or granite.

• Soil Formation

  • An example is shown here in the soft sediment deformation in the Navajo Sandstone.