Statue vs. Sculpture — What's the Difference?

A three-dimensional likeness of a person or deity.

The output of the craft of sculpting, often representing form or abstract notions.

A representation in full figure.

A carved, molded, or assembled three-dimensional artwork.

A figure that serves as a decorative or symbolic element.

A piece that results from molding or carving an artistic material.

A carved or cast figure of a person or animal.

An artwork expressing form and texture in three dimensions.

A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals or non-representational forms are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture that represents persons or animals in full figure but that is small enough to lift and carry is a statuette or figurine, whilst one more than twice life-size is a colossal statue.Statues have been produced in many cultures from prehistory to the present; the oldest-known statue dating to about 30,000 years ago.

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts.

A carved or cast figure of a person or animal, especially one that is life-size or larger.

The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal.

A three-dimensional form or likeness sculpted, modeled, carved, or cast in material such as stone, clay, wood, or bronze.

A work of art created by sculpture.

A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.

Such works of art considered as a group.

(dated) A portrait.

Ridges, indentations, or other markings, as on a shell, formed by natural processes.

(transitive) To form a statue of; to make into a statue.

To sculpt.

The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.

To ornament with sculpture

A portrait.

To make sculptures or a sculpture.

To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

(countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

A sculpture representing a human or animal

Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.

An effigy created to honor or remember an individual or event.

(zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.

(archaic) A printed picture, such as an engraving.

To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.

To represent something in sculpture.

To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.

To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

A three-dimensional work of plastic art

Creating figures or designs in three dimensions

Create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;

Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it;

The art of creating three-dimensional forms by shaping materials.

Yes, all statues are a form of sculpture.

Yes, sculptures can be abstract or representational.

Sculpture is a broader term encompassing various three-dimensional art forms, including statues.

Yes, a bust, representing a person's head and shoulders, is a type of statue.

No, sculptures can be abstract and not represent any specific being.