Other forms: sculptures
A sculpture is art with a body — a figure shaped from stone, metal, or clay. A bronze sculpture, a sculpture park, carve a sculpture.
The old division is between carving, which takes material away, and modelling, which builds it up, and the two demand opposite habits of mind — carving allows no mistakes. Casting lets a modelled work become bronze. The Latin means to carve.
1nounsculptureA three-dimensional work of art.
“A huge bronze sculpture of a horse stands in the middle of the square.”
sculpture is a work of art.
Latin sculptura comes from sculpere, to carve. The word names the carving rather than the object.
Latin
sculptūra — sculpture
Old French
sculpture
Middle English
sculpture
English, today
sculpture
Built from
From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculptūra (“sculpture”), from sculpō (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA