Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson
SCULPTURE
SCULPTURE. This is the art of portrayal in wood, stone, or metal of figures either in relief or freestanding. While sculpture embellished churches in both West and East up until the 7th c., iconoclasm (q.v.) and the victory over the latter resulted in the East in a ban on sculpture, at least within the churches, except for figures in bas-relief.