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What's left after you delete everything that isn't the statue.
means A three-dimensional work of art made by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling material into a shape.
from From Latin sculptura, from sculpere 'to carve, cut, or engrave' — the same root that gives us 'sculpt.' The Romans took it from the literal act of cutting stone away, so the word has always carried the idea of revealing a form by removing what surrounds it.
- Michelangelo's method
- Claimed he just freed figures trapped in stone
- oldest known
- Carved figurines predate writing by 30,000 years
- lost-wax casting
- Bronze statues are hollow, molded around vanished wax
- original color
- Greek marbles were once painted garishly bright
- David's flaw
- Carved from a block other sculptors rejected
david — michelangelo's marble statue of the biblical figure, completed in florence in 1504, 17 feet tall
the thinker — rodin's bronze figure in contemplation, originally titled 'le poète', cast in multiple versions since 1880
venus de milo — hellenistic marble statue from milos, greece, circa 130-100 bce, armless torso in the louvre
the birth of venus — botticelli's tempera painting on canvas, 1484-1486, florence, depicting the goddess emerging from the sea