• SCULPTURE

1.

• s. The act of sculpturing, coelatura: sculptura: scalptura. SYN. in the verb.
• A thing sculptured, coelamen (Ov.): signum (any plastic work; opposed to tabulae, picturae) [Vid: STATUE.]
• The art of sculpturing, ars pingendi: ars signa fabricandi: ars et statuas et simulacra fingendi

2. v. coelare (from κοῖλος: to work figures in relief on metals, especially silver, ivory, etc.; also in wood; Verg. Freund writes caelare): scalpere: sculpere (the former of work but little raised, like ξέειν; the latter like γλύφειν, of works in half or whole relief. So Müller, Archaeol., 108): insculpere: scribere: inscribere (of cutting Inscript.). To sculpture anything in gold, aliquid auro or in auro coelare: to sculpture in stone, aliquid e saxo sculpere or exsculpere: to sculpture in marble, scalpere marmora (Cic.): to sculpture flowers, scalpere flores (Vitr.).