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history of sculpture

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  In Western sculpture
  …there developed two general types: statuary, in which figures are shown in the round, and relief, in which figures project from a ground.
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Middle Eastern arts

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  In Mesopotamian art and architecture: Sculpture
  Some statues in the round have been found, but the comparative ineptitude of the majority of them suggests that this form of expression did not come naturally to Assyrian sculptors. Portal sculptures, which many would consider the most characteristic Assyrian art form, are not statues in…
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