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Triumph of the Human Spirit is a 2000 black granite sculpture by Lorenzo Pace, installed at Manhattan's Foley Square, in the U.S. state of New York. According to the City of New York, the 50-foot (15 m), 300-ton, abstract monument is derived from the female antelope Chiwara forms of Bambaran art. The sculpture is sited near a rediscovered ...
The Sleeping Hermaphrodite is an ancient marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size. In 1620, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted the mattress upon which the statue now lies. The form is partly derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes, and partly from contemporaneous feminised Hellenistic portrayals of ...
The sculpture was installed in Battery Park between 2002 and 2017, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey moved it to Liberty Park, overlooking the September 11 Memorial and its original location. [5] The sculpture, rededicated at its permanent location on August 16, 2017, has been kept in the badly damaged condition it was found in ...
Pages in category "Marble sculptures in New York City" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
Lorenzo State Historic Site is a mansion built by Colonel John Lincklaen, founder of the village of Cazenovia, New York. [2] Colonel Linklaen was the agent of the Holland Land Company upon whose recommendation the Company purchased the 135,000-acre (55,000 ha) tract of land where the village grew.
Sculpture Marble Height 44 cm (17.3 in) 1 [4] Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni: Santa Prassede, Rome 1613–1616 Sculpture Marble Life-size 2 [4] A Faun Teased by Children: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1616–1617 Sculpture Marble Height 132 cm (52 in) NA [5] The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence: Uffizi, Florence 1617 Sculpture Marble
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds a preparatory sculpture. A bronze version, created from the terracotta bozzetti (preparatory works) done by Bernini, exists in a private collection in New York. [10] There is also a drawing of Scipione Borghese, done in red chalk and graphite, in the Morgan Library in New York. [11]