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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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Scottish book
sculptures are a
group of book
sculptures that were
contrived to be "found" in
Scotland between 2011 and 2016. The
sculptures are on topics...
- Some
sculptures are
created directly by
finding or carving;
others are ****embled,
built together and fired, welded, molded, or cast.
Sculptures are often...
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prosthetic technology inspired him to have the
sculptures commissioned by an
unnamed artist.
Additional sculptures are
inside his house,
located on Prospect...
- centuries. The
earliest sculptures in
Bangladesh discovered so far date back to the 3rd
century BC.
Since ancient times,
sculptures have been
serving as...
- full-sized
model of the
sculpture, most
often a non-drying oil-based clay such as
Plasticine model for
smaller sculptures or for
sculptures to be
developed over...
- Phidias. The term
Parthenon Marbles or
Parthenon Sculptures (Gr****: Γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα)
refers to
sculptures—the frieze,
metopes and pediments—from the Parthenon...
