Some artists prefer to carve directly onto the stone, without a model; the Renaissance artist Michelangelo, for example, claimed that his job was to free the human form trapped inside the block. Other artists sculpt a preliminary model out of clay or wax and then translate its features to stone through the use of calipers or a pointing machine.
Some artists prefer to carve directly onto the stone without a model; the Renaissance artist Michelangelo for example claimed that his job was to free the human form trapped inside the block Other artists sculpt a preliminary model out of clay or wax and then translate its features to stone through the use of calipers or a pointing machine