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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 .
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 ...
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 square is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse, fronted by the sculpture Triumph of the Human Spirit by artist Lorenzo Pace; the New York County Courthouse; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse ...
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]
Truth Unveiled by Time is a marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the foremost sculptors of the Italian Baroque.Executed between 1645 and 1652, Bernini intended to show Truth allegorically as a naked young woman being unveiled by a figure of Time above her, but the figure of Time was never executed.
The work was made of marble [3] and sculpted by the Piccirilli Brothers, [4] [5] with each sculptural group costing $13,500 (equivalent to $460,000 in 2023). [4] The sculptures were first shown to the public in 1905. [3] From east to west, the statues depict larger-than-life-size personifications of Asia, America, Europe, and Africa.