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The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture situated atop a stone pedestal depicting a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand.
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
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Leochares: Apollo Belvedere.Roman copy of 130–140 AD after a Greek bronze original of 330–320 BC. Vatican Museums. Classical sculpture (usually with a lower case "c") refers generally to sculpture from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, as well as the Hellenized and Romanized civilizations under their rule or influence, from about 500 BC to around 200 AD.
The Music (sculpture) Music (sculpture) P. A Parade of Animals This page was last edited on 3 July 2023, at 21:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Hellenistic sculpture represents one of the most important expressions of Hellenistic culture, and the final stage in the evolution of Ancient Greek sculpture. The definition of its chronological duration, as well as its characteristics and meaning, have been the subject of much discussion among art historians, and it seems that a consensus is ...
Bust of Beethoven by Hugo Hagen, 1892, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.. The German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) is among the most admired composers in the history of Western music, [1] and has been the subject of many private and public sculptures, including busts, reliefs, statues and others.
Modern and contemporary art have added a number of non-traditional forms of sculpture, including sound sculpture, light sculpture, environmental art, environmental sculpture, street art sculpture, kinetic sculpture (involving aspects of physical motion), land art, and site-specific art. Sculpture is an important form of public art.