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Sculpture, unlike painting, may be appreciated by touch as well as by seeing. Even if one does not actually touch it when contemplating a particular work of sculpture, the appreciation of the smoothness of surface and the modulation of one mass into another may be so strong that the mind receives the sensation of touching. This is commonly referred to as tactile quality, and oftentimes the kind of sculpture which produces a strong tactile expression is called plastic. Small works sculpture as well of sculpture, such as some of the Chinese jade carvings, invite one to take them in the hand.

At the same time as these amazing constructions Picasso also used quite a different technique and after a long period of preparation, with a large number of drawings, he finally produced one of his most famous works sculpture as well, a clay sculpture called " Man with Sheep" (top left) (1944). Picasso himself used to tell the story of how he came to finish the sculpture: it was over six foot high, and after he had spent only two consecutive afternoons on it, he discovered that he had not prepared it properly. Then for two whole months, he did not even touch the metal frame of the sculpture.

Roman.—Roman sculpture evolved from Etruscan and continued, in many respects, the Hellenistic traditions. Indeed, it would seem that great numbers of the sculptors were of Greek origin. Also Rome imported works sculpture as well of sculpture from Athens and other centers of Greek art. The term, Roman, however, applies not only to the city of Rome, but also to the huge empire which that city built up, thus sculpture from Athens or Spain is called Roman if done during the period of Roman dominance.