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Tableau (sculpture)

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In sculpture, the tableau refers to a genre of large-scale, usually polychrome sculptural groups that flourished in many European countries in the 15th–16th centuries. The term is applied by art historians to both historical staged arrangements of religious figures, made from terracotta or in mixed "non-precious" materials, and to the modern life-size installations.