icon vs sculpture

icon

noun
  • A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels. 

  • A small picture that represents something. 

  • A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing. 

  • An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion. 

  • A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. 

sculpture

noun
  • Works of art created by sculpting, as a group. 

  • The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell. 

  • A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting). 

verb
  • To represent something in sculpture. 

  • To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc. 

  • To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure. 

How often have the words icon and sculpture occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )