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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 Greek Slave is a marble sculpture by the American sculptor Hiram Powers. It was one of the best-known and critically acclaimed American artworks of the nineteenth century, [1] and is among the most popular American sculptures ever. [2] It was the first publicly exhibited, life-size, American sculpture depicting a fully nude female figure.
Philadelphia Museum of Art More images: The Hand of God [57] 1897 to 1898 Marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 73.7 x 60.3 x 64.1 More images: The Evil Spirits [58] 1899 Marble National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 71.2 x 75.7 x 59 More images: Man and his Thought [59] 1896 to 1900 Marble National Gallery (Berlin) 77 x 46 More images
Cumulus is a monumental sculpture carved from Italian marble and based on the dimensions and weight of an atmospheric cumulus cloud.The work was created in 2017 by American artist Karen LaMonte and first displayed at the Glasstress exhibition during the 57th Venice Biennale. [1]
Sleeping Hermaphroditus or Sleeping Hermaphrodite (also, "The Borghese Hermaphrodite") is an ancient Roman marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size; it rests on a marble mattress completed by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1620. [1]
The tomb was found marked by a marble plinth with Lacedaemonian inscriptions of the names of the men. [1] Lekythos depicting a woman visiting a stele grave and carrying an offering for the gods. Note the wreath decoration. The Grave Stele of Hegeso is one of the best-preserved surviving attic stele and features a woman seated by her servant ...
A marble sculpture bought for $6 and used as a doorstep could be about to make a fortune. The bust, made by French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, could make over $3 million at auction after a local ...
The group statue is made of Parian marble, and at 1.55 m. tall (including the base), it is slightly smaller than lifesize. [2]Aphrodite, the beautiful naked goddess of beauty and love, is depicted in frontal with hair well-tressed and tied up with a scarf bound in a bow above her parting.