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Interior Design Glossary of Terms 2 Flashcards

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A three-dimensional art of fashioning figures of wood, clay, plastics, metals, stones etc.

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Sculpture

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Means “to carve”

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Sculpere

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Process of making sculpture that has been known since prehistoric times. With this process the artist subtracts or cuts away superfluous material until the desired form is reached.

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Carving

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A process of sculpting that mainly consists of addition to, or building up of form. The materials used are soft and yielding and can be easily shaped, enabling rapid execution.

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Modeling

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Manufacturing process by which a liquid material is poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape and then allowed it to solidify.

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Casting

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Oldest surviving casting.

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Copper Frog

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Also known as the lost wax method.

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Cire Perdue

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Raised forms that projects from a background or a surface. It is made to be seen only on one side from an angle.

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Relief Sculpture

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A type of relief sculpture that is where the figure is projecting closer to the surface and no part is entirely detached from the background.

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Low Relief

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Another term for Low Relief

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Bas Relief

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Other than bas relief, this is another term for low relief.

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Basso-Relievo

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A type of relief sculpture where figures may almost detach from the surface.

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High Relief

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Another term for High Relief.

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Haut Relief

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Other than Haut relief, this is another term for high relief.

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Alto-Relievo

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A type of relief sculpture that is between low and high relief.

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Half Relief

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Another term for half relief.

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Demi Relief

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Other than demi relief, this is another term for half relief.

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Mezzo-Relievo

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The lowest degree of relief in which the projection barely exceeds the thickness of a sheet of paper.

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Crushed Relief

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Another term for crushed relief.

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Relievo Sticciato

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A relief in reverse, in which all the carving lies within a hollowed-out area below the surface plane.

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Hollow Relief

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Another term for hollow relief.

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Cavo-Relievo

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A free standing sculpture and is often on a pedestal or a base. This is made to be seen from many directions and angles.

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In the Round

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Representationalist sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event, animal or object.

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Statue

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Representation of a person from chest up.

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Bust

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Typically showing a person on a horseback.

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Equestrian Statue

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A sculpture from found objects.

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Assemblage

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Oldest sculpture dating back in pre-historic times.

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Venus of Vestonice

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A 11.5cm sculpture with bulbous proportions.

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Venus of Willendorf

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Characterized by abstract geometric designs which were enlivened by formal images of elemental gods.

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Mesopotamian Sculptures

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Sculptures that were made through basalt, diorite, sandstone and alabaster with the use of metals and semi precious stones as inlay. Characterized by large, staring eyes and beard.

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Sumer and Akkad Sculptures

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Period where sculptures include the Lamassu.

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Babylonian and Assyrian Sculptures

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Characterized by colossal structures mainly used for outdoors to accompany or adorn the dead.

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Egyptian Sculptures

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A type of relief where the outline is the one that is carved out.

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Incised

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Period where they have no interest in large sculptures. The designs were good but lacked a good sense of proportion, practically for human figures.

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Aegean Sculptures

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Period in art where they use they sculpture as monuments to honor their gods, to commemorate victories and to record religious sites.

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Greek Sculptures

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A clay mold technique used by the Archaic Period mainly for frontal figures.

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Daedalic Style

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The only sign of life in with the Archaic Sculptures.

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Archaic Smile

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The period where the personality portrait started.

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Hellenistic Period

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Sculptor famous for the boldness of which he foxed moments of violent action in bronze. Ex: Discobolus the Discus Thrower

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Myron

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The greatest name in Greek sculpture. He designed and directed the building of Parthenon.

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Phidias

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Sculptures done in ivory and adorned with gold.

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Cryselephantine

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He was one of the most admired sculptors of the Classical Period and his aim was to depict people as they were. Ex: Doryphoros, the spear bearer

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Polycleitus

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He always tried new techniques to make his artwork “ripple with life” and be as natural as possible.

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Praxiteles

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An exaggerated contrapposto, a sensous more erotic modeling of the body and a serene countenance with an unmistakable gaze.

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Praxitelian Curve

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He initiated portrait sculpture and modified canon by using smaller heads.

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Lysippus

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Characterized by accurate portrayal of facial expressions even if it was unflattering.

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Roman Sculpture

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A technique of undercutting with a drill around the figure rather than modeling them in rounded form producing a flattering contrast of light and shadow.

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Negative Relief

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He continued the Italian tradition of elaborate freestanding carved pulpits.

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Nicola Pisano

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Son of Nicola Pisano, developed freestanding sculptures in wood, ivory and marble.

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Giovanni Pisano

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Period where sculptures were made with full range of human emotions with exact knowledge of human anatomy and body mechanics.

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Renaissance Sculptures

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He was the first to make sculptures of twisting figure.

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Giovanni de Bologna

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Period in sculpture that made a virture of complexity, distortion and artifice. There was a focus on the human form and not always realistic settings.

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Mannerist Sculptures

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Period that replete with lively movement and pictorial in nature. Figures moved, flew or contorted with agony.

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Baroque Sculptures

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This period maintained the theatricality of Baroque with sculpted fugures that are even more melodramatic and compositions that were more complex.

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Rococo Sculptures

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Period that made sculptures with noble simplicity and serene grandeur.

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Neo-Classic Sculpture

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Their sculptures were used as representation of certain religious ideas and doctrines. It all begins in reference to all things by Buddha.

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Indian Scupltures

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a fine-grained stone with a smooth milk-white surface. It is slightly translucent.

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Alabaster

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Inert ingredient mixed with cement in making casting mix.

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Aggregate

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(In relation to sculpture) Any component of a building which has been modeled, carved or welded and integrated into the whole.

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Architectural

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A framework of metal wire or tubing used in fashioning a work in clay, wax or plaster or Paris.

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Armature

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It is where a sculpture is mounted on or fixed into.

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Base

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Other term for base.

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Plinth

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A small terracotta sketch of a sculpture.

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Bozzetto

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A design carved in relief in stone or shell.

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Cameo

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Metal or plaster poured into a mould and left to harden to produce a work of art.

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Cast

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A mechanical process of finishing a metal surface.

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Chasing

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Modern method of casting sculptures in which the casting material is a resin mixed with powdered bronze.

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Cold Cast Bronze

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A huge sculpture, larger than heroic.

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Colossal

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20th century term used to describe a less planned approach to carving where the sculptor carves the finished sculpture without intermediate models and maquettes.

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Direct Carving

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Other term for Direct Carving.

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Taille Directe

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A type of dark-colored stone much used in Egyptian Sculpture.

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Diorite

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Sculpture portraying the human or animal figure.

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Figurative

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A small moulded statuette.

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Figurine

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Sculpture larger than life-size.

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Heroic

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A form of incised relief in which the design is sunk below the surface.

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Intaglio

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A small scale model for a finished sculpture.

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Maquette

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Oil-based clay used for modelling sculptures.

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Plasticene

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A copy of sculpture which is in cast plaster.

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Plaster Cast

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