Used to account for the distortion in perception when looking up at a 3D relief sculpture.

The placement of figures in a specific space, or with the actual way an individual figure is balanced .

A difference between the textures or surface in a specific figure (cloth to skin)

A difference between figures (male / female)

Or other contrasting factors; standing to sitting, clean cut to scruffy, mythical to human etc.

Highlighting a particular aspect a group of figures or a feature on a single figure

An understanding of the physical proportions of the human body.

A repeated motif. More easily identified in relation to the placement of sculptural details; the triglyph and metope pattern above the architrave of the temple.

The overall balance of a group of statues, or to the physical symmetry within an individual figure.

A sense within a static figure or set of figures that they are in fact ‘paused’ in the act of moving; think of the contrast between Egyptian statues.

The feel of a figure; often linked to contrast e.g. skin to cloth

The relative size of figures within a group.

The impact of and shape of the distance between figures in a group of sculptures.

The direction our eye follows around a group of figures.

The shape of the space that the sculptures occupy.