freestanding

Examples of freestanding in the following topics:

• Champa Art in Early Vietnam

  • The artistic legacy of Champa consists primarily of sandstone sculptures, both freestanding and in relief, and brick buildings.
  • The Cham were famous for both their freestanding sandstone statues and their relief carvings, with some preference for the latter.

• New Guinean Wood Carvings

  • These sculptures, found throughout the island but mostly in the mountainous highlands, first appeared as stone figures that took the shape of mortars, pestles, or freestanding figures.
  • Imagery including birds, human heads, or geometric patterns were often carved onto the tops of pestles or mortars or into the freestanding figures.

• Rococo in French Decoration

  • Furniture design became physically lighter, so as to be easily moved around for gatherings, and many specialized pieces came to prominence, such as the ‘fauteuil chair,' the ‘voyeuse chair,' and the ‘berger et gondola. ' Furniture in the Rococo period was freestanding, as opposed to wall-based, in order to accentuate the lighthearted and versatile atmosphere that was desired by the aristocracy.

• Sculpture of the Aztecs

  • Aztec sculpture often took the form of striking carvings of Aztec gods or mythical creatures, and it was expressed through ceramics, architecture, freestanding three-dimensional stone works, and relief work.

• Sculpture in Southeast Asia

  • The Cham created freestanding sandstone sculptures in the round, as well as high and bas-relief carvings of sandstone.

• Carving

  • Carved sculpture can be "freestanding", where the viewer can walk around the work and view it from all sides, or created in "relief", where the primary form's surface is raised above the surrounding material.

• French Architecture in the Baroque Period: Versailles

  • The Grotte de Thetys is a freestanding structure with an interior decorated in elaborate shell-work to represent the myth of Apollo.

• Mycenaean Ceramics

  • There are few examples of large scale freestanding sculptures from the Mycenaeans.