Sculpture and relief

Volume in art: reliefs, cabinet pieces, casting, carving and the poses a figure is built on.

Terms in total: 10

Painting 51 What a picture is made of: paints and grounds, ways of laying a stroke, and work with light, colour and layers.Styles and movements 49 The great manners and epochs — from gothic and baroque to cubism and minimalism — and how to recognise them in an object.Genres 22 What a work is about: portrait, landscape, still life, battle scene and other established kinds of subject.Porcelain and ceramics 38 What porcelain, faience and ceramics are made of and decorated with: bodies, glazes, painting and factory marks.Silver and metal 26 Working in metal: chasing, niello, filigree, gilding, enamels and the hallmarks used to read a piece.Sculpture and relief 10 Volume in art: reliefs, cabinet pieces, casting, carving and the poses a figure is built on.Graphic arts and printing 14 Drawing and the printed sheet: engraving, etching, lithography, screen printing and other ways to pull an impression.Decorative and applied arts 35 The beauty of objects: glass and stained glass, mosaic, textile, wood, ornament, lacquer and gilding.Market and collecting 10 How art is sold and collected: the auction, the estimate, the provenance, repetitions and exhibitions.Other 2 Terms that do not reduce to a single technique: perception, light, and the artist working on the viewer’s senses.

Bas-relief Relief sculpture technique for surface decoration Gypsum Gypsum is a soft, easily workable material widely used in art for creating sculptures and molds. It is a miner High Relief A high relief that protrudes from the plane by more than half of its volume. Cabinet sculpture Small sculptural forms intended for interiors and collecting Cameo Relief image of a profile on stone or in an artifact Capital Decorative upper part of a column in architecture and art Contrapposto A technique in sculpture and painting composition for conveying movement and naturalness of pose Counter-relief A type of relief where the image is recessed into the material. Sculptural Group Composition of Several Figures in Sculpture Artistic cast iron Decorative technique for making artistic cast iron products