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Sculpture

Sculpture is a direct CreativeWork subtype for three-dimensional artworks: statues, installations, assemblages, kinetic works. It adds no properties of its own. Dual-type with VisualArtwork when you need depth, weight, artMedium, and the full art-world property set.

For outdoor or sited installations, contentLocation (where it is installed) and locationCreated (where it was made) tell very different stories and are worth populating both.

Full example of schema.org/Sculpture json-ld markup

The markup is verified as valid with Rich Results Test from Google.

schema.org/Sculpture
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": ["Sculpture", "VisualArtwork"],
  "name": "Semantic Web",
  "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Okwuosa" },
  "dateCreated": "2025-09-18",
  "artMedium": "Bronze on granite base",
  "contentLocation": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Xoo Code plaza, 14 Riverfront Pl, Dunmore PA" },
  "locationCreated": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Okwuosa Foundry, Scranton PA" },
  "height": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "value": 320, "unitCode": "CMT" },
  "width": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "value": 180, "unitCode": "CMT" },
  "depth": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "value": 180, "unitCode": "CMT" },
  "weight": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "value": 1200, "unitCode": "KGM" }
}
</script>

Minimal valid version

The smallest markup that still produces a valid Sculpture entity. Use it as the floor. Reach for the advanced example above when you want search engines and AI agents to understand more about your content.

schema.org/Sculpture (minimal)
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Sculpture",
  "name": "Semantic Web",
  "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marcus Okwuosa" }
}
</script>

Google rich results this unlocks

Sculpture is a structural type. It does not produce a rich result on its own.

Its value comes from combining it with a primary type whose markup earns a rich result (Article, Product, Event, and so on). Sculpture becomes the trunk that the primary type branches off viamainEntityorbreadcrumb. Include it on every page as the backbone of your markup.

Common Sculpture mistakes

Mistakes that pass validation but silently fail to earn rich results or mislead consumers walking the graph. Avoid these and your markup will be ahead of most sites in the wild.

  1. 01

    Collapsing contentLocation and locationCreated

    Wrong
    Using only one of contentLocation / locationCreated for a sited sculpture
    Right
    Populate both: where the work lives now and where it was made

    The two locations can differ substantially (bronze cast in a foundry, installed at a corporate plaza). Both are useful for cultural-heritage indexers and the AI art market.

Schema properties in this example

SculptureVisualArtworkCreativeWorknamecreatorPersondateCreatedartMediumcontentLocationPlacelocationCreatedheightwidthdepthweightQuantitativeValuevalueunitCode

About the example data

A public sculpture outside Xoo Code's Dunmore headquarters, "Semantic Web", bronze on granite, 2025.

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