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  2. Mephistopheles and Margaretta - Wikipedia

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    The statue is carved from a single block of wood and is exhibited with a mirror placed behind it, allowing viewers to observe both sides at the same time. [7] The dichotomy of good and evil is emphasized by the innocence of the female figure, a demure woman holding a prayer book in her hand, contrasting with the depiction of evil exemplified by ...

  3. Maquette - Wikipedia

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    A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture. [1] The term is a loanword from French. An equivalent term is bozzetto , [ 2 ] a diminutive of the Italian word for a sketch.

  4. St Michael's Victory over the Devil - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture symbolises the victory of good over evil, and depicts a winged angel with spear, standing with arms and legs spread above the bound figure of the horned devil lying supine. The larger than life statue stands some 25 ft (7.6 m) high, with the angel's wings spreading 23 ft (7.0 m).

  5. Peace Fountain - Wikipedia

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    Peace Fountain celebrates the triumph of Good over Evil, and sets before us the world's opposing forces—violence and harmony, light and darkness, life and death—which God reconciles in his peace.When the fountain operates, four courses of water cascade down the freedom pedestal into a maelstrom evoking the primordial chaos of Earth.

  6. Glossary of sculpting - Wikipedia

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    A maquette is a small-scale model for a finished sculpture. It is used to visualize and test shapes and ideas without incurring the cost and effort of producing a full-scale sculpture. It is the analogue of the painter 's cartoon or sketch .

  7. Bird Girl - Wikipedia

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    Jepson Center location Front view. Bird Girl is a sculpture made in 1936 by Sylvia Shaw Judson in Lake Forest, Illinois.It was sculpted at Ragdale, her family's summer home, and achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

  8. 'That statue is not it': Dwyane Wade sculpture goes viral ...

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    'Miami Heat did Dwyane Wade dirty' While the NBA and Wade praised the statue and honor, many on social media did not and mocked the sculpture's appearance, even likening it to the 42-year-old's ...

  9. Italian Renaissance sculpture - Wikipedia

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    This involved making a finished maquette in wax, or wax over clay, which is then destroyed during casting; the Horse and Rider is a very rare wax sculpture, probably a maquette that was never cast, which has survived; there is a small number of others, mostly small preliminary studies. [30]