I'm back and ready to answer the most important part to this blog, how a sculpture was made in Greece. As you know sculptures were made of many materials and because of this the process varies greatly depending on the material. For an example I am going to talk about the way a sculpture is made using marble. To guide proportions, a small scaled down drawing or carving would be followed as a person carved. Different types of iron tools were used during this process. A pointed tool would be used first to remove bigger chunks of marble, then a hand drills or chisels to sculpt fine detail. Once the main structure was sculpted, other additions like the arms, would be sculpted separately and connected to the body using dowels. The finished product would be sealed with an abrasive powder or sometimes oil hot wax. The last steps included, attaching the figure to a plinth, (heavy base that supported the statue or vase,) or column, the eyes, mouth, skin, hair and patterns on clothing were painted, and the eyes could be inlaid with crystal, bone, or glass. If necessary spears, swords, helmets, jewelry, diadems, (jeweled headband,) and meniskoi, (small bronze disc suspended over the top of the head prevent birds from defacing the work of art,) would be last details to this sculpture.
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