Sculpture, ancient art, born at the same time as painting in prehistoric times, since its origins was understood according to two main aspects: one more linked to the ways of sister art, namely the relief from the most elementary form of graffiti on a surface, to the more elaborate techniques of the high and bas-relief, up to the pictorial or crushed relief, the other own and exclusive of sculptural art, that is, the creation in the round statue of a free object in space , which offers different points of view and can be contemplated from all sides.
From the beginning different materials were used for sculpture: terracotta, stone, plaster or stucco, wood, metals, ivory and bone, precious stones; in modern and contemporary sculpture, plastic materials, synthetic resins and the whole range of poor materials such as paperweight, cardboard, rags, metal wires are widely used. Latest arrivals