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Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme au doigt was auctioned for $141.3 million at Christie's in May 2015, the highest price for any sculpture at auction. [1] Giacometti's L'Homme qui marche I had previously achieved the highest price of any sculpture when it was auctioned by Sotheby's in February 2010. Selling for US$104.3 million, it ranks amongst the ...
It is impossible to imagine anything more ardent and at the same time more chaste". [11] Years later, Claudel was commissioned to create a smaller marble version of the sculpture by the Comtesse de Maigret, the wife of Christian de Maigret , whose bust Claudel had made in 1899. The completed sculpture, in white marble on red marble base, was ...
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 ...
Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the 6 ...
Bringing the Parthenon sculptures together as a unified whole is impossible as half had been lost or destroyed by 1800. [ 120 ] The British Museum display allows the marbles to be better viewed in the context of other major ancient cultures and thus complements the perspective provided by the Acropolis Museum collection.
At two meters and nineteen centimeters height, this statue made of Parian marble is over lifesize, and considered to be of great artistic value. [ 2 ] The statue, created around the first century BC, [ 3 ] or AD, [ 1 ] was one of the many copies of the original.
Detail of Jesus's head and veil. Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a carved marble sculpture completed in 1753 by the Neapolitan artist Giuseppe Sanmartino.It is formed from a single block of white marble, and was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, a prince of Sansevero, as the centerpiece of the Cappella Sansevero, in Naples, Italy.
Saint George (Italian: San Giorgio) is a marble sculpture by Donatello. It is one of fourteen sculptures commissioned by the guilds of Florence [1] to decorate the external niches of the Orsanmichele church. St. George was commissioned by the guild of the armorers and sword makers, the Arte dei Corazzai e Spadai.