French - An atelier is a room where artists make their work. A painter’s atelier will be full of paint, brushes, canvases, and other tools of the trade. Sculptors and designers also have ateliers. An atelier gives the artist the space and privacy needed to create. An atelier is a place of creativity
French Clair-obscur - Chiaroscuro: In sculpture, arrangement of ordered masses in such a way that they produce the most pleasing shadow effects in view of the way the work is lit. The interplay of light and shadow on or as if on a surface. It helps to think of subordinate and dominate. Repetition with variation, […]
Colossal : Who has the size and character of the colossus. The colossal statue has dimensions above the dimensions of nature and whose work, character and proportions are analogous and in harmony with this supernatural grandeur.
Refers to the more recent sculptures made in a classical style, that is to say, inspired by Antiquity.
Cherub - a winged angelic being described in biblical tradition as attending on God. It is represented in ancient Middle Eastern art as a lion or bull with eagles' wings and a human face, and regarded in traditional Christian angelology as an angel of the second highest order of the "ninefold" celestial hierarchy.