Category 19th century baroque sculptures. The statue show a lady in the act of collecting some flower a. An impressive white marble sculpture emblematic of the spring after the school of the italian sculptor orazio marinali.
In the 14th and 15th century interest in greek classicism took hold and religious themed sculptures shared the stage with sculptural portraits tombs animal statues and works based on greek. Prior to this however sacred figures dominated gothic sculpture in 12th century europe in the form of reliefs and statues for grand scale cathedrals. Supreme examples in western culture being the monumental megaliths at stonehenge the classical sculptures of the parthenon in athens the celtic high crosses of ireland and the 12th 13th century gothic column statues and reliefs in the cathedrals of northern france.
A sculpture s vivid physical presence makes it an ideal form of public art. At all periods there were great numbers. The archaic from about 650 to 480 bc classical 480 323 and hellenistic.
Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone. The sculpture of ancient greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient greek art as with the exception of painted ancient greek pottery almost no ancient greek painting survives. The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects in reliefs on surfaces or in environments ranging from tableaux to contexts that envelop the spectator.
Sculpture an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three dimensional art objects. 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.
