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Sculpture
Sculpture Sculp"ture (?; 135), n. [L. sculptura: cf. F.
sculpture.]
1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal,
etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as
of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing
figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal,
etc.
There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The
mad affection of the Cretan queen. --Dryden.
SculptureSculpture Sculp"ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Sculptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing.]
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or
metal; to carve; to engrave.
Sculptured tortoise (Zo["o]l.), a common North American
wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked
with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured
figures.
Meaning of Sculptures from wikipedia
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large sculptures, too
expensive for
private individuals to create, were
usually an
expression of
religion or politics.
Those cultures whose sculptures have...
- needed] Only a
small number of the
original sculptures remain in situ. Most of the
surviving sculptures are at the
Acropolis Museum in
Athens and at...
- for
sculptures.
Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme au
doigt was
auctioned for $141.3
million at Christie's in May 2015, the
highest price for any
sculpture at...
- The
Sperlonga sculptures are a
large and
elaborate ensemble of
ancient sculptures discovered in 1957 in the
grounds of the
former villa of the Emperor...
- Some
sculptures are
created directly by
finding or carving;
others are ****embled,
built together and fired, welded, molded, or cast.
Sculptures are often...
- "greatest
outdoor public art museum" in the
United States. More than 300
sculptures can be
found on the
streets and
parks of the New York
metropolitan area...
-
sculpture by
Praxiteles in
which Hercules appears several times in
different sizes.
Pedimental sculptures in the
United States Pedimental sculptures in...
- Soft
sculptures can be stuffed, sewn, draped, stapled, glued, hung,
draped or woven.
These materials and
techniques distinguish soft
sculptures from more...
- Phidias. The term
Parthenon Marbles or
Parthenon Sculptures (Gr****: Γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα)
refers to
sculptures—the frieze,
metopes and pediments—from the Parthenon...
- Ice
sculpture is a form of
sculpture that uses ice as the raw material.
Sculptures from ice can be
abstract or
realistic and can be
functional or purely...
