To _Plastic_, the first kind of beautiful formative Art, belong _Sculpture_ and _Architecture_. The _first_ presents corporeally concepts of things, _as they might have existed in nature_ (though as beautiful art it has regard to aesthetical purposiveness). The _second_ is the art of presenting concepts of things that are possible _only through Art_, and whose form has for its determining ground not nature but an arbitrary purpose, with the view of presenting them with aesthetical purposiveness. In the latter the chief point is a certain _use_ of the artistic object, by which condition the aesthetical Ideas are limited. In the former the main design is the mere _expression_ of aesthetical Ideas. Thus statues of men, gods, animals, etc., are of the first kind; but temples, splendid buildings for public assemblies, even dwelling-houses, triumphal arches, columns, mausoleums, and the like, erected in honourable remembrance, belong to Architecture. Indeed all house furniture (upholsterer’s work and such like things which are for use) may be reckoned under this art; because the suitability of a product for a certain use is the essential thing in an _architectural work_. On the other hand, a mere _piece of sculpture_, which is simply made for show and which is to please in itself, is as a corporeal presentation a mere imitation of nature, though with a reference to aesthetical Ideas; in it _sensible truth_ is not to be carried so far that the product ceases to look like art and looks like a product of the elective will.