sculptor 
sculp·tor (skulp′tər)
noun
- a person who models, carves, or otherwise fashions figures or forms of clay, stone, metal, wood, etc.; artist who creates three-dimensional representations
- a S constellation between Cetus and Phoenix containing the S galactic pole
Etymology: L < sculpere, to carve in stone, akin to scalpere, to cut: see scalpel
sculptor
n.
Major sculptors include: Phidias, Ghiberti, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Giovanni da Bologna, Benvenuto Cellini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Auguste Rodin, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Giovanni Pisano, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Pablo Picasso, Daniel Chester French, Frederic Remington, Louise Nevelson.
Converse of object
- commission: He commissioned the sculptor Roubiliac to provide a life-size statue of his hero to be placed inside the temple.
- bear: The Gallery houses some of the earliest works from a number of locally born sculptors, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
- know: One of the Sigurd crosses belong to the school of Gaut, the first known Norse sculptor on the island.
- base: Andrew, a British sculptor based in New York, will be showing three works.
- lead: View a vast selection of sculptures by leading uk sculptors also on display at their London showroom.
Converse of subject
- create: This reverse design was created by sculptor John Mills.
Adjective modifier
- renowned: I am very grateful to David Wynne, the renowned animal sculptor agreeing to open this exhibition.
- monumental: Should we not question the Irishness of Pádraic Pearse whose father was an English monumental sculptor who settled in Ireland?
- figurative: Lucy Kinsella is a figurative sculptor whose work focuses mainly on animals.
- eminent: Among the father figures today are two eminent sculptors who came to prominence in the years after the Second World War.
- celebrated: The statue, which no longer exists, was made of gold and ivory by the celebrated sculptor Pheidias.
- acclaimed: Within the garden is the impressive Akeler Sundial, created by the acclaimed sculptor Edwin Russell FRBS.
Modifies a noun
- robert: Familiar the phrases who started the facility houses a multi-media sculptor robert.
Noun used with modifier
- multi-media: Familiar the phrases who started the facility houses a multi-media sculptor robert.
- vegas: The favorite i'm network went live vegas sculptor tony.
- bronze: Weaver William Jefferies and bronze sculptor Philip Hearsey fill the gallery with figurative tapestries and abstract vessels.
- master: I fancied the position of master sculptor of people's voices.
- glass: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN click here to view 20th July - 23rd August 2003 Richard Jackson is a glass sculptor in a literal sense.
Possessives
- studio: The curtain rose disclosing a sculptor's studio, with the sculptor at work on a reproduction of a well known classical statue.
Preposition: of
- century: We look to the sculptors of the 20th Century for guidance.
Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawingöa drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
I do not find any difference between painting and sculpture except that the sculptor pursues his work with greater physical fatigue than the painter and the painter pursues his with greater mental fatigue.
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