"Some stones have only one view; others work like sculptures in the round," she said.

A statue is a sculpture in the round representing one or more people or animals.

However sculpture in the round was condemned as "sensual".

Apart from the practical problem of showing his sculptures in the round, there is the matter of how to combine them.

Weil-Garris also focuses on the pedestal beneath the sculpture in the round.

The spoon is Egyptian made from partially painted carob wood, carved in a sculpture in the round fashion.

Relief is more suitable for depicting complicated subjects with many figures and very active poses, such as battles, than free-standing "sculpture in the round".

Stained glass and enamel on metalwork became important media, and larger sculptures in the round developed, although high relief was the principal technique.

After the reconquest in 1261, carving on the medieval templon approached sculpture in the round.

These works make use of delicate tracery rather than solid form, with a two-dimensional appearance that contradicts the traditional idea of sculpture in the round.

They had relief sculpture for decorative friezes, and sculpture in the round to fill the triangular fields of the pediments.

Both the Copan and Tonina stelas approach sculptures in the round.

Western art did not share Byzantine inhibitions about sculpture in the round: reliefs became increasing high and small statues were common, representing much of the best work.

Byzantine art, though producing superb ivory reliefs and architectural decorative carving, never returned to monumental sculpture, or even much small sculpture in the round.

The largest display is Linda Lieff's row of rice paper boxes that sit on a bench and thus are full-fledged sculptures in the round.

The Byzantine Church did not favor sculpture in the round, fearing that it would recall idols from Greek and Roman pagan religion.

In metalwork, large sculptures in the round, normally rather scarce in the Islamic world, served as elaborate receptacles for water or as fountain spouts.

"Black Trunk," a leafless tree devised by Mel Kendrick, is a sculpture in the round composed of six irregularly shaped bronze rings joined together.

One's attention turns not just to the illusionary limits of film but also to the real spaces the screens occupy: they form a kind of sculpture in the round.

The artistic legacy of Champa consists primarily of sandstone sculptures - both sculpture in the round and relief sculpture - and brick buildings.

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

In Egypt and the Near East relief-sculpture (mostly in very flat low relief) goes in this respect with drawing and not with sculpture in the round.

It was an international style found at many cities in the Hellenic world and in a variety of media including:bronze sculpture in the round, stelae, and architectural relief.

Both he and Jesus must be seen from various angles to be fully understood, and although they are barely more than reliefs they give the illusion of having been sculptured in the round.

The remnants of classical Cham art extant today consist mainly in temples of brick, sandstone sculptures in the round, and sandstone sculptures in high and low relief.