Types of sculpture

thumb|Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial)|Abraham Lincoln statue, [[Lincoln Memorial (1920)]] A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal, glass, marble, or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size. A sculpture that represents persons or animals in full figure, but that is small enough to lift and carry is a statuette or figurine, whilst those that are more than twice life-size are regarded as colossal statues.

thumb|alt=Photograph of a classic-style snowman in scarf and hat with pipe and carrot nose, in Winona Lake, Indiana, USA|A classic three-ball snowman in Winona Lake, Indiana|Winona Lake, [[Indiana]] thumb|Making snowman in Kõrvemaa, Estonia (January 2021)

thumb|Side view of Lorenzo Ghiberti's cast [[gilt-bronze Gates of Paradise at the Florence Baptistery in Florence, Italy, combining high-relief main figures with backgrounds mostly in low relief.]] thumb|upright=1.2|A common mixture of high and low relief, in the Roman Ara Pacis, placed to be seen from below. Low relief background. thumb|upright=1.2|A face of the high-relief Frieze of Parnassus round the base of the [[Albert Memorial in London. Most of the heads and many feet are completely undercut, but the torsos are "engaged" with the surface behind.]]

sculpture of the upper part (head, neck, and a variable portion of chest and shoulders) of the human figure

art genre of artworks that contains movement

small relief carving

art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered art

circular work of art

thumb|upright|Chinese ceramics|Chinese porcelain blanc de Chine figure of [[Guanyin, Ming dynasty]] A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with clay, metal, wood, glass, and today plastic or resin the most significant. Ceramic figurines not made of porcelain are called terracottas in historical contexts.

art form and technique

statue of a rider mounted on a horse

type of kinetic sculpture

statue on top of a tomb, depicting the occupant

upright=1.2|thumb|Burning of Judas|Burning of Judas Iscariot, Brazil, 1909 thumb|upright=1.2|Effigy of Ravana, a figure from the [[Ramayana, with burning sparklers, in Manchester, England, in 2006]] An effigy is a sculptural representation, often life-size, of a specific person or a prototypical figure. The term is mostly used for the makeshift dummies used for symbolic punishment in political protests and for the figures burned in certain traditions around New Year, Carnival and Easter. In European cultures, effigies were used in the past for punishment in formal justice when the perpetrator

recreating faces from skeletal remains

kind of road digged in the sand to let marbles run by many players

3D computer graphics

relief sculpture carved into solid rock

thumb|upright|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's maquette for the fountain he donated to [[Valenciennes.]]

small-scale model game piece used in miniature wargaming

Era of sculpture beginning with Auguste Rodin

outdoor decoration