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Not sure of your abilities and experience, but for a similar situation I have used Drupal and a custom content type (CCK). I used the Contemplate module for page layout and imagecache for automatic image resizing.

I use custom blocks written in php to do database queries to build true custom navigation. To make things simple, use the taxonomy module to automatically link things together.

Basically what I would do is create a CCK node type called sculpture. Then you define the fields and inputs that your friend will be able to use.

To format the page you'd create a template called node-sculpture.tpl.php. This file allows you to use CSS and HTML to position all of the fields you created for the CCK node type. When someone looks at a page (actually a node) that is of the sculpture type, then node-sculpture.tpl.php is used to render the page (actually just the node).

Now if your friend has 100 sculptures she wants to show, having 100 menu items is obviously not ideal. So you would want to create some type of page that displays a list or gallery of sculptures. That is where the Views module comes in. You basically tell it what fields from the database you want to list and what kind of filter you want (node type: sculpture) and it dynamically generates the list, all without needing to know database programming. And like above, if you don't like the layout of the page you could create views-list-sculptures.tpl.php to control it. The views theme wizard will tell you the fields you can worth with.