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This page groups artworks by the physical material they were made in. Wikipedia notes that "icons are most commonly painted on wood panels with egg tempera, but they may also be cast in metal or carved in stone or embroidered on cloth or done in mosaic or fresco work." Browsing by medium lets a visitor find every artwork made in the same material.

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Comparison

Cultural Origin

Greco-Roman 1

Medium

Attic black-figure ceramic, volute krater

Bronze

Carved limestone

Carved marble

Carved marble, high relief

Carved marble, high relief, about 166 to 156 BC

Cast bronze

Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks

Embossed silver, Roman, 2nd to 5th century CE (disputed)

Engraved bronze mirror

Fresco

Lead

Limestone relief

Marble

Marble (acrolithic head)

Marble relief, second half of the 2nd century BCE

Marble statue, Roman copy, about 125 to 150 CE

Marble, Pentelic

Mixed media mural, transferred to canvas in 1874

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk or graphite

Pentelic marble relief

Pentelic marble, high relief and bas relief

Red-figure terracotta

Statue, Roman period

Tempera (and some oil) on poplar panel

Terracotta

White marble

White marble, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1621 to 1622