Materials of Sculpture - Nicholas Penny - Hardcover

This beautiful and authoritative book surveys the sculpture of many civilizations--from ancient Egypt, Greece and China to fifteenth-century Italy, nineteenth-century France and twentieth-century North America--to explain how sculpture is made. Nicholas Penny provides a basic introduction to the nature of the materials used by sculptures, examining how these were regarded as well as how they were worked in different periods and in different cultures.Penny, Nicholas is the author of 'Materials of Sculpture - Nicholas Penny - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780300055566 and ISBN 0300055560.