Sculpture vs Statue - What's the difference?
sculpture | statue | Hypernyms |
(uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
(countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
* Dryden
Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
To represent something in sculpture.
To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
* Shakespeare
(dated) A portrait.
To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
* Feltham
Statue is a hypernym of sculpture.
As nouns the difference between sculpture and statue
is that sculpture is the art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor while statue is a three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.As verbs the difference between sculpture and statue
is that sculpture is to fashion something into a three-dimensional figure while statue is to form a statue of; to make into a statue.sculpture
English
Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia sculpture)- There, too, in living sculpture , might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
Verb
(sculptur)External links
* * * ----statue
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will raise her statue in pure gold.
- (Massinger)
Hypernyms
* image, sculpture, simulacrumHyponyms
* bust, figurineDerived terms
* statued * statuelike * statuesqueVerb
(statu)- The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.
