Writing maintains strong ties with sculpture in the medieval and modern West. For when the former takes on monumental proportions and becomes “epigraphy”, it frequently uses the materials (stone, marble, bronze) and techniques (incision, polychromy, possibly relief) of the latter. Inversely, many works of sculpture feature inscriptions. Discover all the aspects of these “texts in sculpture”, and as well their decisive contribution to understanding works, patrons and artists.