Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cult...
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The Statue of David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504. 517 cm × 199 cm (17 ft × 6.5 ft). Galleria d...
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Dying Slave (1513), by Michelangelo. Louvre
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Votive column of the Naxians. Colossal sphinge (H. 2.22 m) originally placed on top of a ten-meter i...
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Vézelay (Yonne - France), Basilica of Saint Magdalene – Central tympan of the Saint Magdalene narthe...
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Psyche revived by the kiss of Love (H. 5 ft. 1 in., W. 5 ft. 6 in., D. (3 ft. 3 ¾ in.). Marble statu...
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Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza, Chicago, Illinois, US
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Palma de Mallorca, Plaça de la Porta de Santa Catalina, Device to root out evil by Dennis Oppenheim
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Detailed view of Trajan's column. Panorama from different images, exif taken from the middle one. Cu...
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Statue of a maiden. She wears a peplos over the chiton. Often attributed to the same sculptor of th...
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Self-portrait of the sculptor Adam Kraft at his main workplace in the church tabernacle of the Loren...
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The Adorant, from the Abri Geißenklösterleat Blaubeuren, horizon II b. Mammoth ivory, Height 38 mm, ...
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Head of a queen mother ioyba, Nigeria, Kingdom of Benin, early 16th century, gun bronze; Africa depa...
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Maya site of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico. Sculpture depicting king K'inich Ahkal Mo' Naab III (Temple ...
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Hampered Wing. Jean Yves Lechevallier
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Alexander Calder: Crinkly avec disc rouge, 1973
Schlossplatz in Stuttgart (Öffentlicher Platz)
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the statue of Kassapa Buddha, Ananda Temple in Bagan, Myanmar.
Ancient Figurine, National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2130296832).jpg
Stone statue from Addi-Galamo, Tigray Province (northern Ethiopia), 6th - 5th century BCE. I'd like...
Alexander Archipenko, La Vie Familiale, Family Life, 1912.jpg
Alexander Archipenko, 1912, La Vie Familiale (Family Life). Exhibited Salon d'Automne 1912, Paris, a...
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Barkenuntersatz des Natakamani und der Amanitore aus Wad Ban Naga (heute: Ägyptisches Museum Berlin,...