sculptors
Artists in marble
Sculptors are artists who create three-dimensional works by carving, modeling, casting, or assembling materials like stone, metal, clay, or wood.
The term covers everyone from Michelangelo chiseling marble to contemporary artists welding scrap metal: The sculptors worked in bronze and steel.
Recrystallized limestone rock
- bronzeCopper-tin alloy
- stoneSolid earth fragment
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- woodTree-derived building material
plaster · terracotta · alabaster · granite · limestone · sandstone · basalt · jade
Shaping by cutting away
- castingShaping through liquid form
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- weldingHeat-fusing metal pieces
- assemblageCollected group of things
lost-wax · pointing · roughing · finishing · polishing · patination · armature · maquette
Three-dimensional sculpted likeness
- bustFailure or sculpture
- figurineSmall ornamental sculpture
- reliefEasing of distress
- bas-reliefSculpture projecting slightly
frieze · monument · installation · mobile · stabile · fountain · memorial · public art
Florentine sculptor and painter
- RodinFrench bronze sculptor
- DonatelloQuattrocento Florentine sculptor
- GiacomettiSculptor of attenuated figures
marble
Recrystallized limestone rock
wood · plaster · terracotta · alabaster · granite · limestone · sandstone · basalt · jade · ivory
carving
Shaping by cutting away
- castingShaping through liquid form
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
- weldingHeat-fusing metal pieces
assemblage · lost-wax · pointing · roughing · finishing · polishing · patination · armature · maquette · enlargement
statue
Three-dimensional sculpted likeness
bas-relief · frieze · monument · installation · mobile · stabile · fountain · memorial · public art · freestanding
Michelangelo
Florentine sculptor and painter
- RodinFrench bronze sculptor
- DonatelloQuattrocento Florentine sculptor
- GiacomettiSculptor of attenuated figures
chisel
Edged carving implement
file · calipers · angle grinder · welding torch · kiln · foundry · workbench · turntable · wire loop · spatula
- Medieval Patronageart commissions, royal courts, noble houses, court artists, cathedral building
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- artsartist, creativity, expression, songs, painting
- arts worldartists, galleries, museums, studios, painters
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, gallery
- craftspeoplepotter, weaver, blacksmith, artisan, potters
sculptorspainters
Those who apply pigment
illustrators · photographers · printmakers · digital artists · muralists
sculptorsdemolishers
Those who destroy structures
destroyers · vandals · iconoclasts · wreckers · dismantlers
sculptorsviewers
People who watch
spectators · art collectors · museum-goers · critics · patrons
- ice sculptorCarves frozen water artistically