freestanding

Examples of freestanding in the following topics:

• Champa Art in Early Vietnam

  • The artistic legacy of Champa consists primarily of sandstone sculptures, both freestanding and in relief, and brick buildings.
  • The Cham were famous for both their freestanding sandstone statues and their relief carvings, with some preference for the latter.

• New Guinean Wood Carvings

  • These sculptures, found throughout the island but mostly in the mountainous highlands, first appeared as stone figures that took the shape of mortars, pestles, or freestanding figures.
  • Imagery including birds, human heads, or geometric patterns were often carved onto the tops of pestles or mortars or into the freestanding figures.

• Rococo in French Decoration

  • Furniture design became physically lighter, so as to be easily moved around for gatherings, and many specialized pieces came to prominence, such as the ‘fauteuil chair,' the ‘voyeuse chair,' and the ‘berger et gondola. ' Furniture in the Rococo period was freestanding, as opposed to wall-based, in order to accentuate the lighthearted and versatile atmosphere that was desired by the aristocracy.

• Sculpture in Southeast Asia

  • The Cham created freestanding sandstone sculptures in the round, as well as high and bas-relief carvings of sandstone.

• Sculpture of the Aztecs

  • Aztec sculpture often took the form of striking carvings of Aztec gods or mythical creatures, and it was expressed through ceramics, architecture, freestanding three-dimensional stone works, and relief work.

• Magnetosomes

  • Recent research has shown that magnetosomes are invaginations of the inner membrane and not freestanding vesicles.

• Carving

  • Carved sculpture can be "freestanding", where the viewer can walk around the work and view it from all sides, or created in "relief", where the primary form's surface is raised above the surrounding material.

• The Sales Process

  • These provide a customizable process and a set of electronic tools that can be freestanding or integrated with the company's SFA, CRM, or other opportunity management system.

• French Architecture in the Baroque Period: Versailles

  • The Grotte de Thetys is a freestanding structure with an interior decorated in elaborate shell-work to represent the myth of Apollo.

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • Pediments in the Doric style were decorated with figures in relief in early examples; however, by the time the sculptures on the Parthenon were created, many pediment decorations were freestanding.