Page 455 - (DK) The Ultimate Visual Dictionary 2nd Ed.

SCULPTURE 1
EXAMPLE OF A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE
Tiny holes along Mary Magdalene, Donatello, 1454-1455
the hairline made Poplar wood, height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
with a point Soft skin texture tooled
with a fine-toothed
marble claw
EXAMPLE OF A CARVED MARBLE SCULPTURE
The Rebel Slave, Michelangelo, 1513-1516
Marble, height 7 ft (213 cm)

Hair worked
with a narrow Delicately
claw modeled
DETAIL OF hand carved
with a chisel
SLAVE’S HEAD

Hair
Translucent white
marble, quarried at highlighted
Carrara, Italy with gold
leaf
Figure cut
from single
length of
poplar
Deep
ridges of
hair cut
with a
gouge
Surface rubbed
smooth with
rifflers and
pumice

Strut gives added
support to long
slender limb
Wood prepared
with gesso
(chalk and glue)
and painted
Series of tiny
punch holes,
made with
Base scored with a fine point,
jagged parallel outline the
cuts made with form Foot carved in
point and lump deep relief
hammer

Rough surface
made by driving
a point into the
marble at an
oblique angle
The dimensions of the marble block
determine the size of the sculpture DETAIL OF SLAVE’S FOOT

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