a bronze (sculpture)

  • 1Bronze sculpture — Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a bronze . Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest …

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  • 2SCULPTURE — LORSQUE, dans les débuts de la civilisation occidentale, Aristote se demande ce que sont les choses naturelles et artificielles, de quoi elles sont composées, et qu’il édifie alors la théorie des quatre causes (matérielle, formelle, efficiente,… …

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  • 3Sculpture — Sculptor redirects here. For the constellation, see Sculptor (constellation). For other uses, see Sculpture (disambiguation). The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome …

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  • 4sculpture — sculptural, adj. sculpturally, adv. /skulp cheuhr/, n., v., sculptured, sculpturing. n. 1. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the… …

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  • 5Bronze — This article is about the metal alloy. For other uses, see Bronze (disambiguation). Bronze Chola statue of Nataraja from India at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with… …

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  • 6bronze work —       implements and artwork made of bronze, which is an alloy of copper (copper work), tin, and, occasionally, small amounts of lead and other metals.  Bronze first came into use before 3000 BC but was rare until an extensive trade in tin… …

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  • 7Bronze Wrangler — Infobox award name = Bronze Wrangler imagesize = 150px caption = The Wrangler in bronze description = Best in Western film and television presenter = National Cowboy Western Heritage Museum country = USA year = 1961 website =… …

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  • 8sculpture — noun a bronze sculpture Syn: model, carving, statue, statuette, figure, figurine, effigy, bust, head, likeness …

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  • 9Sculpture — • In the widest sense of the term, sculpture is the art of representing in bodily form men, animals, and other objects in stone, bronze, ivory, clay and similar materials Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sculpture     Sculpture …

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  • 10SCULPTURE - Matériaux et techniques — Dresser un tableau exhaustif des matières premières utilisées par les sculpteurs est presque impossible. Des gemmes les plus précieuses au mélange de boue et de cendre humaine dont sont constituées certaines figures magiques de l’Asie centrale,… …

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