Sculpture

The art of making two- dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

Sculpture played a minor role during this period.
However it was an important ingluence behind the development of Italian Renaissance art later on.

This was the principle form of monumental religious art which for centuries (c.400-1800) was driving the force of European civilization.

This is still the leading form of expressing and commemorating both historical figures and events, but in this case it was used in decoration of cathedrals, my favorite example, "Gargoyles."

The earliest gothis sculptures were stone figures of Saints and The Holy Family, used to decorate doorways or Portals.

Sculptures became more realxed and naturalistic only a little later.

Gothic sculpture later evolved into a more technically advanced and classicistic Renaissance style in Italy during the 14th and 15th century.

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.