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• the sarcophagus of King Gustav I of Sweden and his consorts at Uppsala Cathedral (pictured) had once been confiscated by authorities in Antwerp because the Flemish sculptor Willem Boy was in debt?
• the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture?
• microminiature sculptor Hagop Sandaldjian carved Mount Ararat on a grain of rice, and made a crucifix out of a bisected strand of his own hair?
• the Polish Art Nouveau sculptor Konstanty Laszczka (pictured) produced symbolic bronze statues of female nudes overwhelmed with sadness?
• the controversial sculpture Entropa, unveiled in Brussels on January 13, 2009, depicts Bulgaria as a series of squat toilets (example pictured)?
• when complete, B of the Bang will be Britain's tallest sculpture?
• when asked if she wanted to focus on drawing, painting, or sculpting in art school, Ruth Duckworth said she wanted to study all of them just as Michaelangelo had?
• the site of a crashed JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft is now marked with a sculpture of a crumpled paper aeroplane?
• Skulptur, a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov, was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish?
• Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts?
• Singaporean sculptor Han Sai Por created her 2006 work Seeds (pictured), situated at the National Museum of Singapore, from sandstone excavated during the Museum's redevelopment?
• painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
• English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
• British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
• Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
• Tori Busshi, a Japanese artist, most likely learned to sculpt while working as a saddle maker?
• Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare, Zimbabwe, before turning to sculpture full-time?
• Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia?
• 2009 National Indigenous Art Award winner Danie Mellor once created a sculpture using ceramics, kangaroo skin, synthetic eyeballs, and stuffed birds?

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