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Alabaster Sculpting Workshops
Alabaster working: traditional Handicraft of Volterra

Corso di alabastro

Shaping and sculpting...

Alabaster is a creamy-white, transparent, crystalline stone from the region around Volterra that fascinated the ancient Etruscans more then 2,500 years ago. It conceals a secret inner character composed of shape, veins, colour and transparency. Concealed in broad layers of gypsum at depths of up to 100m underground, alabaster is laboriously excavated in egg-shaped blocks and then shaped in craftsmen's workshops. It can be carved, sawed, filed and sculpted, making it the perfect material for sculptures of all kinds, both for beginners and advanced artists. Volterra has gained a world reputation for its long tradition of expertise in working alabaster stone. This course, held by a local artist and sculptor, will introduce you to the beauty of this stone as well as its handling, thus assisting you with your own creative and artistic work.

Alabaster work of a participant  Alabaster Workshop 2009

Alabaster Sculpting Classes

Alabaster sculpting classes include 15 hours lesson. Accomodation and half board is for one week, arriving and leaving on Saturday. The teacher will guide you though the secrets of this old tradition from Volterra and will help you in realising your own work of art.

Alabaster sculpting courses are suitable for beginners and expert sculptors who would like to learn specific work techniques for alabaster sculpting.

This course is also loved by children!

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A. Alabaster Sculpting Workshop

- 15 hours sculpting workshop with the teacher
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Alabaster stone for the first work (up to 13 kg)
- Tool usage

This course price is valid only in conjunction with accommodation and half-board.

Discounts available for multi-week courses

Course Only: It is also possible to book only the alabaster sculpting course without accommodation and half-board

 

 

 

Course Management : Lorenzo Millo


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