Sculpture

thumb|Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, [[Capitoline Museums, Rome]] thumb|upright=1|Assyrian sculpture|Assyrian [[lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, –721 BCE]] thumb|Michelangelo's Moses, (), [[San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II]] thumb|Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay thumb|The Angel of the North by [[Antony Gormley, 1998]] thumb|The Litlington White Horse, a monumental work of stone sculpture created by exposing the underlying chalk bedrock. Sc

thumb|One of the two Luxor Obelisks, on the [[Place de la Concorde in Paris; a red granite monolithic column, high, including the base, which weighs over .]] thumb|Lateran Obelisk in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, [[Rome. With its height of (with the base and the cross it reaches 45.70 m) it is the largest standing ancient monolithic obelisk in the world.]]

Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid.|right|thumb right|thumb|upright=1.3|Roman Empire|Roman sarcophagus with the myth of [[Medea, , from Rome, exhibited in the Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin)]] right|thumb|upright=1.3|Roman sarcophagus with Apollo, [[Minerva and the Muses, , from Via Appia, exhibited in the Antikensammlung Berlin]] thumb|upright=1.3|The Gothic art|Gothic sarcophagi of Don Àlvar Rodrigo de Cabrera, count of [[Urgell and his wife Cecília of Foix, , made of limestone, traces of paint, exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)]]

thumb|330px|Triptych of the The Elevation of the Cross (Rubens)|Raising of the Cross, Rubens, 1610–11, Antwerp Cathedral A triptych ( ) is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works. The middle panel is typically the largest and flanked by two smaller related works, although there are triptychs of equal-sized panels. The form can also be used for pendant jewelry.

type of sculpture with a head and often a torso above a plain lower section, often with male genitals

material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion

art of carving and engraving of stones or gems

artwork created for a certain place

small carved gemstones

thumb|Horatius Cocles at the bridge, Renaissance plaquette by Master IO.F.F., late 15th century, [[Padua, 6.1 x 6.0 cm, in a shape for decorating a sword hilt]] thumb|Peter Flötner, Vanitas, 1535–1540, gilt bronze

statue on top of a tomb, depicting the occupant

figurative coffins from Ghana

sculpture by Tamara Kvesitadze

type of sculpture

expanded concept of art that was advocated by the conceptual artist and politician Joseph Beuys

3D model of human or animal anatomy

etruscan ceramics and sculpture

large sculpture

Anti-monumentalism (or counter-monumentalism) is a tendency in contemporary art that intentionally challenges every aspect (form, subject, meaning, etc.) of traditional public monuments. It has been defined as art designed "not to uphold but negate sacred values". Anti-monumentalism claims to deny the presence of any imposing, authoritative social force in public spaces.

the use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or three-dimensional artworks

in classical architecture, a pedestal which tapers towards the base and usually supports a bust or merges into a sculpted human or animal figure

artwork that incorporates various objects into a painting

sculpture park in Burkina Faso

type of small wooden figures from Easter Island

Era of sculpture beginning with Auguste Rodin

used in plastic arts

natural color of an object unmodified by adding light and shadow or any other distortion; best seen on a matte surface, due to it not being reflected, and therefore distorted

microscopic artworks