The pottery decorations of ancient cultures were instrumental in preserving valuable historical details about daily life, cultural perceptions, myths and deeper spiritual beliefs.

Sutton Betti feels a deep connection towards figurative art and his passion for it is expressed in unique and detailed relief sculptures.

Kad se vratimo u detinjstvo, svako od nas se sigurno nekad igrao sa papirom i seckao ga, lepio i pravio različite oblike. Ovaj kanadski umetnik to radi iz ljubavi i poznati je skulptor.

Trash becomes art! My 7th grade students made these beautiful low relief sculptures with paper towel and toilet paper cardboard tubes! After measuring and cutting the tubes into 1/2″ rings, s…

Carved in fine white limestone, this plaque carved in sunk relief served as a mold. The image represents a squatting heron, known by the Egyptians as a benu bird. The benu, associated with rebirth, was the origin of the mythical phoenix.

A white rhino sculpted as a bas-relief, I've got lots of ideas for sculptures in this style,

Limestone votive stela; decoration in low flat relief; in pediment is a 12 petalled rosette in a disk; 4 line neo-Punic inscription; symbol of the goddess Tanit is flanked by caducei; above them are astral symbols.

[EGYPT 29944] ’Papyrus and lotus flowers at Abydos’. In this relief detail we see pharaoh Seti I presenting papyrus (left) and lotus flowers (right) to Geb and Nut (who are outside the frame of the picture). The relief can be found on the east wall of the Inner Osiris Hall in the Seti I Temple at Abydos. The scenes in this hall depict rites in the Osiris Mysteries which were enacted once a year at Abydos to celebrated the resurrection of Osiris, the son of sky goddess Nut and earth god Geb. The Seti Temple at Abydos was begun by Seti I and completed by his son Ramses II in the 13th century BC. Photo Mick Palarczyk.

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Bill Mack is a contemporary American sculptor and painter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mack attended University of Minnesota and majored in Journalism with a minor in art history while continuing to do commissioned work as a free-lance artist. Mack's early background as a commissioned sculptor also included creating several full-round artworks.

Interview with iconographers Philip Davydov and Olga Shalamova by Irina Yazykova (2010) and Andrew Gould (2014) Philip Davydov and Olga Shalamova are based in Saint Petersburg and are well-known ic…

Relief plaque with ram's head from a god's figure Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 B.C., Egypt

Sasanian art, or Sassanid art, was produced under the Sasanian Empire which ruled from the 3rd to 7th centuries AD, before the Muslim conquest of Persia was com...

Sutton Betti feels a deep connection towards figurative art and his passion for it is expressed in unique and detailed relief sculptures.