The term “architectural sculpture” is not used consistently. Sometimes, it is used as a synonym for architectural “plastic arts,” to include all sculpted and molded works forming part of a building (Sculpture [subtractive]; Sculpture [modeling]). More usually, however, it does not imply all of them (which for the early modern period, as Quatremère de Quincy already pointed out in 1832, would include every carved block of stone [3]), but only the figural sculptures (usually in stone or s…