In the three orders of Ancient Greek architecture, the sculptural decoration, be it a simple half round astragal, a frieze of stylised foliage or the ornate sculpture of the pediment, is all essential to the architecture of which it is a part.

The entablature resting on the columns has three parts: a plain architrave divided into two, or more generally three, bands, with a frieze resting on it that may be richly sculptural, and a cornice built up with dentils ( like the closely spaced ends of joists ), with a corona (" crown ") and cyma (" ogee ") molding to support the projecting roof.

His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of the Legion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise ( now in the Louvre ), which also procured for him the important commission for all the sculptural frieze ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris.

The main exhibits are the Pergamon Altar from the 2nd century BC, with a 113 meters ( 371 ft ) long sculptural frieze depicting the struggle of the gods and the giants, and the Gate of Miletus from Roman antiquity.

" Clark contrasted the formalized draperies in the frieze at Olympia with the sculptural frieze figures of the Parthenon, where " it has attained a freedom and an expressive power that have never been equalled except by Leonardo da Vinci ".

The decorative sculptural frieze on the facade is composed of sixteen characters representing the Arts and Crafts, including sculpture, painting, architecture, pottery, glassblowing, and wrought-iron work.

While those vase paintings that resemble the frieze cluster around 430, the vases that quote the pediments are datable nearer to the end of the century, giving further evidence of the priority of the sculptural program.

Metopes often had painted or sculptural decoration ; the most famous example is the 92 metopes of the frieze of the Parthenon marbles depicting the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths.

Image: Metope-3. jpg | Metopes with sculptural decoration in the Doric frieze of the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi.

The rood screen would originally have been surmounted by a rood loft carrying the Great Rood, a sculptural representation of the Crucifixion.

The result is that sculptural elements of Hermogenes ' Artemision are scattered among the Pergamum Museum, Berlin, the Louvre Museum, Paris and Istanbul.

Poseidon's horses, which were included in the elaborate sculptural program of gilt-bronze and ivory, added by a Roman client to the temple of Poseidon at Corinth, are likely to have been hippocamps ; the Romanised Greek Pausanias described the rich ensemble in the later 2nd century CE ( Geography of Greece ii. 1. 7 -. 8 ):

Thornycroft continued to be a central member of the sculptural establishment and the Royal Academy into the 20th century.

A 3D type of enameling where a sculptural form or wire framework is completely or partly enameled, as in the 15th century Holy Thorn Reliquary.

He was inspired by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and by the Venetian sculptural school of the 17th century and thus became a great propagator of the Italian-provenience sculpture in the Central-European context.

In the 15th century, a new classicising style arose, and early Renaissance cassoni of central and northern Italy were carved and partly gilded, and given classical décor, with panels flanked by fluted corner pilasters, under friezes and cornices, or with sculptural panels in high or low relief.

Pictorial and sculptural art in the Western sense is a 20th century innovation in Sami culture used to preserve and develop key aspects of a pantheistic culture, dependent on the rhythms of the seasons.

Up to that point, Indian Buddhist art had essentially been aniconic, avoiding representation of the Buddha, except for his symbols, such as the wheel or the Bodhi tree, although some archaic Mathuran sculptural representation of Yaksas ( earth divinities ) have been dated to the 1st century BCE.

When Buddhism expanded in Central Asia from the 1st century CE, Bactria saw the results of the Greco-Buddhist syncretism arrive on its territory from India, and a new blend of sculptural representation remained until the Islamic invasions.

In the first half of the 19th century, the first humanitarian reforms in the treatment of the violently insane were initiated here by Philippe Pinel, friend of the Encyclopédistes ; his sculptural monument stands before the main entrance in Place Marie-Curie, Boulevard de L ' Hôpital.

African sculptural forms became fashionable amongst European artists and collectors at the beginning of the Twentieth century, and the Chiwara, especially in its more abstract forms, became one of the icons of what Europeans called Primitive Art.

Image: Symbolic keel shipyards Gorey Jersey. jpg | A sculptural ensemble commemorates the 19th century shipyards of Gorey

* Waterleaf ( architecture ), sculptural decoration used on the capitals of columns in late twelfth century Romanesque architecture

The early medieval origins of the church were first highlighted in the early 20th century AD when fragments of two early Christian stone crosses were discovered built into the church fabric-one with a significant Anglo-Saxon runic inscription and sculptural representation of two figures.

The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 ( Cortot ), Resistance and Peace ( both by Antoine Étex ) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise ( François Rude ).

His primary sculptural work is The Representative of Humanity ( 1922 ), a nine-meter high wood sculpture executed as a joint project with the sculptor Edith Maryon and now on permanent display at the Goetheanum.

Durable sculptural processes originally used carving ( the removal of material ) and modelling ( the addition of material, as clay ), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, shifts in sculptural process led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process.

The central part of the memorial is surrounded by the elaborate sculptural Frieze of Parnassus ( named after Mount Parnassus, the favorite resting place for the Greek muses ), which depicts 169 individual composers, architects, poets, painters, and sculptors.

The gardens are divided into more than a dozen themes, including the Australian Garden, Camellia Collection, Children's Garden, Desert Garden Conservatory, Rose Hill Foundation Conservatory for Botanical Science, Desert Garden, Herb Garden, Japanese Garden and Zen Garden, Lily Pond, North Vista, Palm Garden, Rose garden, Elizabethan Garden ( previously called the Shakespeare garden ), Subtropical and Jungle Garden, the Chinese Garden ( Liu Fang Yuan 流芳園 or the Garden of Flowing Fragrance ) now open in the northern area of the property, and America's largest collection of the sculptural and ' palm-like ' Cycads.

IBM Plaza ( right ), by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is a later example of the clean rectilinear lines and glass of the International style ( architecture ) | International Style, whereas Marina City, ( left ), by his student Bertrand Goldberg, reflects a more sculptural Mid-Century Modern aesthetic.

* Statuary, sculpture ( bas-relief panels, figural sculptures, sculptural groups ), murals, mosaics, and other artwork, all coordinated in theme to assert the identity of the building

Major retrospectives of Chillida ’ s graphic and sculptural work have since been mounted by the National Gallery in Washington, D. C. ( 1979 ), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York ( 1980 ), Palacio de Miramar in San Sebastián ( 1992 ); and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid ( 1999 ) and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ( 1999 ).

Mistry's fountain The River is the largest sculptural piece in the square Queen Victoria, original by Thomas Brock ( 1901 marble ), recast in bronze by William Bloye ( 1951 ).

The art of the period from Francis I through Henry IV is often heavily inspired by late Italian pictorial and sculptural developments commonly referred to as Mannerism ( associated with Michelangelo and Parmigianino, among others ), characterized by figures which are elongated and graceful and a reliance on visual rhetoric, including the elaborate use of allegory and mythology.

The iconography survived as the Four Corners of the World, however, generally in self-consciously classicizing contexts: for instance, in New York, in front of the Beaux-Arts Alexander Hamilton U. S. Custom House ( 1907 ), four sculptural groups by Daniel Chester French symbolize the " Four Corners of the World.

The sculptural program, too, is fascinating: on the left, in the furthest niche resides Pietro Bernini's " Saint John the Baptist " ( 1616 ), and in the closest niche on the right is Francesco Mochi's Saint Martha ( 1629 ), which is significantly larger than the other three sculptures, with Saint Martha seeming to want to leave her niche.

the Reiner-Burchill Residence, " Silvertop " ( 1956 ), was his first major exploration of the sculptural possibilities of monolithic concrete, features a large arching concrete roof over the main house and an eye-catching curved concrete driveway that sweeps up and around the steep block.

Roman triumphal arches, however, typically have a massive, solid attic ( upper level ), often filled with a dedicatory inscription and sculptural decoration.

With John Birnie Philip, he worked on the external sculptural decorations of Scott's colonial office in Whitehall, Armstead also sculpted the large fountain at King's College, Cambridge ( 1874 – 9 ), incoporating a statue of its founder, Henry IV, and numerous effigies, such as Bishop Wilberforce at Winchester, and Lord John Thynne at Westminster Abbey.

Galilei also built the more conventionally Baroque façade for San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ( 1734 ), where the cornice between lower and upper stages breaks forward at center and ends, and niches between engaged Corinthian columns and sculptural detail all provide the Baroque light-and-shade.

One of these was the Association of New Architects ( Asnova ), formed in 1923, which promoted the idea of synthesising architecture and other creative arts to give buildings an almost sculptural feeling.