Concept

Sculpture

Overview

branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions

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The art of sculpture is of much more ancient origin than those of painting and of statuary in bronze. Phidias himself worked in marble, and there is a Venus of his at Rome, a work of extraordinary beauty, in the buildings of Octavia.
the Elder Pliny, The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
The chapter “CHAPTER XIX. SCULPTURE.” is titled for Sculpture; states what Sculpture is.
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A knowledge of mechanical principles is also requisite; and such knowledge not being usually possessed, grave mechanical mistakes are frequently made. Take an instance. For the stability of a figure it is needful that the perpendicular from the centre of gravity--"the line of direction," as it is called--should fall within the base of support; and hence it happens, that when a man assumes the attitude known as…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
States what Sculpture is; opens on Sculpture.
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But inasmuch as in painting the animation of life can assert itself through objects in a far profounder degree than is possible in architecture we find that it presents much less scope for the purely formal unity of the symmetrical, and the rule of uniformity in all its severity is for the most part to be traced only as the fundamental principle of composition in the earliest phases of art, making way in its more…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
Close in meaning to Sculpture; the term itself is not named.
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Part of Aesthetics.

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