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Marble height 5.17 meters (17.0 feet) Madonna and Child (Madonna of Bruges) 1501–1504 Church of Our Lady, Bruges: Marble height 128 cm David De Rohan (in Italian) 1502–1508 Lost: Bronze Saint Paul: 1503–1504 Cathedral, Siena: Marble Saint Peter: 1503–1504 Cathedral, Siena: Marble Saint Pius: 1503–1504 Cathedral, Siena: Marble Saint ...
David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1] [2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo.With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.
The Atlas Slave is a 2.77m high marble statue by Michelangelo, dated to 1525–1530. ... List of works by Michelangelo; External links. accademia.org;
Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...
The Florentine Prigioni (Young Slave, Bearded Slave, Atlas Slave and the Awakening Slave) were probably carved instead in the second half of the 1520s, while Michelangelo was employed at San Lorenzo in Florence (but historians suggest dates between 1519 and 1534). It is known that they were in the artist's warehouse on the via Mozza in 1544 ...
Michelangelo began work on the statue of Giuliano began about 1526, after his statue of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, was complete. The sculpture had to be completed in 1534, the year Michelangelo departed from Florence. In 1533 it was entrusted to Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli to complete any finishing touches.
The Madonna of Bruges is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo of the Virgin and Child. Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs significantly from earlier representations of the same subject, which tended to feature a pious Virgin smiling down on an infant held in her arms. Instead, Jesus stands upright, almost unsupported, only ...
The Niels and Mellie Esperson Buildings are a building complex in downtown Houston, Texas. Mary Ann Azevedo of the Houston Business Journal said that they were "among the most recognizable" buildings in Downtown. [7] The Niels Esperson Building is the only complete example of Italian Renaissance architecture in Downtown Houston. [2]