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For example, the largest of his works in the United States, De Musica is an 81-ton steel sculpture featuring two pillars with arms that reach out but do not touch. Much of Chillida's work is inspired by his Basque upbringing, and many of his sculptures' titles are in the Basque language Euskera .
Antonio López was born on 6 January 1936 in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, a few months before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.It first appeared that Antonio would continue in the family tradition as a farmer, but an early facility for drawing caught the attention of his uncle Antonio López Torres, a local painter of landscapes, who gave him his first lessons.
The Pazzi Madonna is a rectangular "stiacciato" marble relief sculpture by Donatello, since 1886 in the sculpture collections of the Bode-Museum in Berlin. [1] [2] Dating to around 1420 and 1425 [3] at the beginning of Donatello's collaboration with Michelozzo, it was most likely produced for private devotion and possibly commissioned by the Pazzi family for their home in Florence. [4]
This and the Battle of the Centaurs were Michelangelo's first two sculptures. The first reference to the Madonna of the Stairs as a work by Michelangelo was in the 1568 edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. [1] The sculpture is exhibited at the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy.
Stela H, a high-relief in-the-round sculpture from Copán in Honduras Maya stelae (singular stela ) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica . They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain ...
The National Museum of Sculpture (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Escultura) is an art museum in Valladolid, Spain, devoted to sculpture. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture. It has an extensive sculptural collection ranging from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
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2009 Persistències: Exposicio de Dibuixos, Museo de Dibujo Julio Gabin, Castillo de Larrés, Huesca, Spain; 2008 Inauguració de l'Escultura, "A Pau Casals" al career Pau Casals, Boulogne-Villencourt, Paris, France; 2007 Alvar Suñol: Retrospectiva 1954-2008, Museu de Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; 2007 The Georgia Centet, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA 2007 Alvar: Contemporary ...