SCULPTURE

BY: GROUP 1
 ETYMOLOGY
• - from the Middle English,
from old French, from Latin
sculptura (“sculpture”), from
sculpere (“to cut out, to
carve in stone”).
 NOUN
• sculpture(usually uncountable, plural sculptures)

1.(countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping

malleable objects and letting them hardener by chipping away pieces
from a rock(sculpting).
•Dryden
There, too, in living sculpture might be seen/ The
mad affection of the Cretan queen.
 VERB
• Sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures,
present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle
sculptured)

1. To fashion something into a three dimensional figure.

2. To represent something in sculpture.
3. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
 SCULPTURE
• Is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three
dimensions. 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 an almost complete freedom of
materials and process. A wide variety of materials maybe
worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding
or modelling, or molded or cast.
 The Dying Gaul or The Capitoline
Gaul
a Roman marble copy of a
Hellenistic work of the late 3rd
century BCE Capitoline
Museums, Rome
Michelangelo’s Moses, (c.1513-
1515)
San Pietroin Vincoli,
Rome, for the tomb of
pope Julius II