ABSTRACT
The study of terracotta sculpture is now well-founded and diffused, both geographically and thematically. The investigations into terracotta sculpture encompass the analysis of forms, attributions, techniques, studies on the relationship between painting and sculpture, as well as the cultural and anthropological strand of research. Thus, with its multifaceted and wide-ranging scope, the current state of research is dramatically different from the first years of the 1970s, when the field was highly limited. This essay traces avenues of past, present and future research on the material that for a long time has been neglected in the studies of European sculpture.
