Carving Sculpture
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/15/2009 09:43 pm by adminCarving Sculpture
Can a sculpture be in relief and in the round?
I know what both of them mean but i don't know if the same sculpture can be both.
The sculpture I'm referencing:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=2&zoomFlag=1&viewmode=0&item=26.120
I believe the sculpture the sculptor is carving is low relief, the angel of death is high relief and the sculptor is in the round. Am i correct?
Sure, and you have a pretty good example, although I would not consider the angel to be in high relief when the arms and wings are as clear as that. This, of course, is a kind of a trick piece since the angel of death is supposed to be guiding the sculptor in carving the memorial which is low relief. There are a number of sculptures where most of the scene is low relief, part is high relief but still fastened behind, and some parts are in the round. Usually having something coming to life out of the stone, so again tricky.
Notice in most of these examples of high relief, the figures do not escape the surface http://images.google.com/images?q=high+relief+sculpture&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=VyBEStasNY3oM67OnJsB&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=572902593
But note some flexibility as this image http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/India31.jpg is described as high relief on this page http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/India2.htm
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