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The materials used in medieval sculpture were wood, bone, ivory and stone; occasionally bronze sculptures were made but these were relatively rare. Cathedrals, churches, chapels and monasteries were often decorated with stone sculptures; the overhanging blocks at the top of the wall lines, supporting the roof, were called corbels and in the 12th century these were often used as an opportunity to carve all kinds of grotesque faces, imaginary beasts and comical combinations of figures.
Corbels gradually evolved into the familiar grotesque heads termed gargoyles, used as water-spouts to shed water away from the walls beneath.
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∙ 14y agoThere would have been clay but they would mostly have been either wood or stone chiseled down to perfection.
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Which statement best describes one way that Classical Greek sculpture influenced Roman sculptors?
Greek sculpture influenced the Romans from the 2nd century BC. Prominent 1st century BC and 1st century AD Romans such as Cicero and Pliny the Elder greatly admired the innovative work of classical Greek sculpture artists, such as Polykleitos. However, the Romans did not produce much sculpture based on the classical Greek model. Their sculpture was predominantly portraiture (see below) until , from the 1st century AD, the Romans adopted Hellenistic sculpture, which took sculpture to a different level, as a model for their own sculpture. Prior to the influence of Greek sculpture, Roman sculpture was portraiture sculpture (busts). Their portraiture sculpture is regarded as the best sculpture of this kind ever produced.
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