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A-level: The conservator’s eye—Marble statue of a wounded warrior
A-level: The conservator’s eye—Marble statue of a wounded warrior

A-level: Carving Marble with Traditional Tools
A-level: Carving Marble with Traditional Tools

A-level: Adriaen de Vries’s bronze casting technique: direct lost-wax method
A-level: Adriaen de Vries’s bronze casting technique: direct lost-wax method

A-level: Bronze Casting Using the “Lost Wax” Technique
A-level: Bronze Casting Using the “Lost Wax” Technique

A-level: A brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture
A-level: A brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture

Sculptors have had different goals at different times. Two recur: naturalism and abstraction.

A-level: Contrapposto explained
A-level: Contrapposto explained

Don’t stand so straight! Relax. Shift your weight. Bend a knee. Just respond to the world, like this spear-bearer.

A-level: Quarrying and carving marble
A-level: Quarrying and carving marble

Cracks, picks, polish—and teeth. Sounds like dentistry, but the pearly whites here are blocks of Carrara marble.