15 Metaphors for sculpture

And so I have been wont to think that sculpture is the lamp of painting, and that the difference between them might be likened to the difference between the sun and moon.

The most notable sculpture in the Baptistery is the tomb of the ex-Pope John XXIII, whose licentiousness was such that there was nothing for it but to depose and imprison him.

The other may have been the weight of the prevailing error that portrait-sculpture is a less honorable branch of Art.

Whereupon Sangallo told him that sculpture and painting were his trade, not fortification.

The third sculpture is "the Judgment angle," and portrays the "Judgment of Solomon.

that sculpture and not painting was his trade, this superb design, so deficient in the essential qualities of painting proper, would suffice.

These sculptures of Pisano are thus for us a symbol of what happened in the age of the Revival.

The sculpture of the human figure became a noble object of ambition in Greece, and was most munificently rewarded.

Sculpture, which in the school of Niccola Pisano had been subordinate to architecture, became a sub-species of painting in the hands of Andrea.

Finally, Michelangelo, though he knew that sculpture was his goddess, and never neglected her first claim upon his genius, felt in him that burning ambition for greatness, that desire to wrestle with all forms of beauty and all depths of science, which tempted him to transcend the limits of a single art and try his powers in neighbour regions.

It was to him that Pericles intrusted the adornment of the Parthenon, and the numerous and beautiful sculptures of the frieze and the pediment were the work of artists whom he directed.

Sculpture, which in the school of Niccola Pisano had been subordinate to architecture, became a sub-species of painting in the hands of Andrea.

The sculpture of the hills here is more wind than water work, though the quick storms do sometimes scar them past many a year's redeeming.

He painted, and produced a masterpiece; but sculpture still remained the major influence in all he wrought there.

But sculpture was his chosen art, and when called to paint the Sistine Chapel, he implored the Pope that he might be allowed to finish the mausoleum which he had begun, and that Raphael, then dazzling the whole city by his unprecedented talents, might be substituted for him in that great work.

15 Metaphors for  sculpture