A clay mould is used for casting bronze statues.

用黏土模具来浇铸青铜塑像。

The three statues above are probably Roman divinities.

上面这三个雕塑可能是古罗马神像。

On some statues the heads were removable.

有些雕像的头是可以摘下来的。

Statues of him in different roles were sent all over the empire.

他扮演的不同角色的雕像被送往帝国各地。

So voluminous is this collection, which ranges from paintings and scrolls to ancient porcelain and statues.

这批藏品浩如烟海，从绘画和卷轴到古代瓷器和雕像都有。

Easter Island, or Rapu Nui as it is known locally, is home to several hundred ancient human statues—the moai.

复活节岛（当地人称之为拉普努伊岛）是数百座古代人类雕像——摩艾石像的故乡。

At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picturesque costumes, and bearing halberds.

门口站着高大的卫兵，像雕像一样站得笔直，穿着华丽而鲜艳的服装，拿着长柄戟。

Classical Greek statues represented an idealization of the human body and were considered quite beautiful at the time.

古典希腊雕像代表了理想化的人体，这在当时被认为是相当美丽的。

They created figurines which were small statues and which depicted animals or gods or any shape that the clay could be moulded into.

他们创造出了塑像，也就是一些小雕像，描绘动物、神明或任何黏土能塑成的形状。

It's probably fair to say that the Romans were impressed be Greek art and culture and they began making copies of the Greek statues.

可以说，罗马人对希腊艺术和文化印象深刻，于是他们开始模仿（制作）希腊雕像。

For example, in the early Italian Renaissance, bronze statues of horses with a raised foreleg usually had a cannonball under that hoof.

例如，在意大利文艺复兴早期，有一种扬起一条前腿的青铜马雕塑，其马蹄下通常有一个炮弹。

This discovery explains why Kalinese miniature statues were abstract and entirely different in style: molds could be used only for life-size sculptures.

这一发现解释了为什么卡利尼斯微型雕塑是抽象的，而且风格完全不同：模具只能用于真人大小的雕塑。

Now, actually some Roman sculptures were original but others were exact copies of Greek statues and some Roman sculptures were combinations of some sort.

现在，实际上一些罗马雕塑是原创的，但其他的是希腊雕像的复制品，一些罗马雕塑是某种形式的组合。

Local folklore maintains that the statues walked, while researchers have tended to assume the ancestors dragged the statues somehow, using ropes and logs.

根据当地的民间传说，这些雕像会自己行走；而研究人员倾向于认为这些雕像是由他们的祖先用绳子和木头拖着走的。

Statues and formulas, these mechanical tools of a serviceable use, or rather misuse, of his natural faculties, are the ankle-chains of a continuous immaturity.

雕像和公式，这些有用，或者更确切地说，滥用人类天赋的机械工具，是一种脚镣，持续且不成熟。

Panini's Ancient Rome and Modern Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Roman statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches.

帕尼尼的古罗马和现代罗马代表了最珍贵的景观，这包括著名的希腊罗马雕像以及著名的遗址、喷泉和教堂的景色。

Gazda also believes that it's been a mistake to dismiss the Roman copies as copies for copy's sake and not to consider the Roman function and meaning of the statues.

加兹达也认同将这些罗马雕塑复制品当作单纯的复制品且不考虑其本身所具有的罗马特色的功能以及意义而将这些复制品处理掉是一个错误。

Very often such statues were enclosed in rectangular shrines or wall niches whose only opening was at the front, making it natural for the statue to display frontality.

这些雕像通常被封闭在长方形的神龛或壁龛中，它们唯一的开口在前面，这使得雕像很自然地展现了正面。

The effect is altogether lighter and freer than what achieved in stone, but because both perform the same function, formal wooden and metal statues still display frontality.

比起由石头所制成的雕像，木质雕像和金属雕像总体感觉更加轻巧和灵活，但是因为都有相同的功能，这两种正式的雕像仍然采用了“正面描绘”的展现手法。

But they all have a lot of decorations on the walls inside, lots of ornamental plasterwork like statues, which distribute sound very efficiently, reflecting it in all different directions.

但这些音乐厅的内墙都有很多装饰，很多水泥装饰物，比如雕像，这些装饰物能有效传播声音，从不同方向反射声音。

Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.

收藏家们很珍惜卡利岛上制作的古代真人大小的泥人雕像，但长期以来一直想知道卡里亚的艺术家们是如何能够以如此逼真的精度描绘人体的。

In an attempt to attract more tourists, the Swiss government commissioned several life-size fiberglass cow statues, having them decorated by local artists, and set them up on the streets of Zurich.

为了吸引更多的游客，瑞士政府委托当地艺术家来装饰几尊真人大小的玻璃纤维奶牛雕像，并将它们放置在苏黎世的街道上。

The statues were hewn out of solid rock.

这些雕像是在实心岩石上凿出来的。

Scholars have seen this idea in practice with ancient Greek and Roman statues.

学者们已经从古希腊和古罗马的雕像中看到了这种想法的实施。

Under the Emperor Augustus at the height of the Roman Empire, portrait statues were sent throughout the empire.

在奥古斯都皇帝统治下的罗马帝国的鼎盛时期，他的肖像雕像被流传到了帝国各地。

Stone statues were worked from single rectangular blocks of material and retained the compactness of the original shape.

石像是由单个长方形块状材料制成的，并保持原有形状的坚实度。

Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer, thought the statues had been created by pre-Inca peoples from Peru.

挪威民族志学者、冒险家托尔·海尔达尔认为，这些雕像是由来自秘鲁的前印加人创造的。

Statues were created not for their decorative effect but to play a primary role in the cults of the gods, the king, and the dead.

人们不是为了装饰效果而创作了这些雕像，而是为了它们能在祭祀神灵、国王和逝者这一方面发挥主要作用。

Frontality is, however, directly related to the functions of Egyptian statuary and the contexts in which the statues were set up.

然而，正面性是与埃及雕像的功能以及雕像所处的环境直接相关的。