Making three-dimensional shape or object out of materials like clay, stone, metal or wood is what this entails.
Famous sculpture
- Michelangelo’s “David” a marble statue of the Biblical hero David made in Florence, Italy between 1501 & 1504.
- Auguste Rodin’s bronze sculpture “The Thinker” which depicts a man contemplating something was made in 1880.
- The second century BC saw the creation of the “Venus de Milo” a marble statue of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
- The Great Sphinx of Giza an Egyptian limestone sculpture of a sphinx with a lion’s body & human head.
- On the Polynesian island of Easter Island you can find a collection of monolithic human statue known as Moai statue.
- The “Winged Victory of Samothrace” a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike.
- The Lincoln Memorial a statue of President Abraham Lincoln made of marble that is situated in Washington, D.C.
- The “Athena Parthenos” a fifth-century BC sculpture of the Greek goddess Athena made of gold & ivory.
