Classic Bronze Sculptures of Figures

A series of bronze sculptures from different periods, depicting graceful human forms, focusing on motion and elegance in various styles.

Figure of Venus Marina; Paris, France; model about 1710, probably cast later; Bronze; 64.8 x 54.9 x 29.5 cm (25 1,2 x 21 5,8 x 11 5,8 in.)

The Walking Man (L'homme qui marche) modeled before 1900, cast before 1914 Auguste Rodin French A sculptural hybrid with a somewhat complicated history, The Walking Man was made from a cast of a torso that was probably a study for Rodin's Saint John the Baptist Preaching (1878) joined to a cast of the legs from another study for the Saint John. Rodin exhibited a plaster model of the resulting sculpture in his retrospective exhibition in the Place de l'Alma at the time of the Paris Exposition Universal of 1900. Between 1905 and 1907 he enlarged the sculpture and changed the title from A Study for Saint John the Baptist to The Walking Man. A bronze cast from the enlarged model was placed in the French embassy in Rome, then housed in the Palazzo Farnese.The Walking Man displays not only Rodin's fascination with partial figures, reminiscent of antique sculptural fragments, but also his interest in the sculptural representation of the human body in sequential motion. By showing both feet pl

Edgar Degas, Dancer Fastening the String of Her Tights, c 1885 1890 Dancer Fastening the String of Her Tights

'Apollo'. Italy. Venice, First quarter of the 16th century. Dimensions: height: 38,8 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Cherub, One of a Pair of Putti, c. 1600, 19 3/4 x 7 x 7 1/4in. (50.2 x 17.8 x 18.4cm), Bronze, Italy, 16th-17th century

Bronze statuette of Hermes. Culture: Greek or Roman. Dimensions: H. 11 7/16 in. (29.1 cm). Date: 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D..Hermes--messenger of the gods, the cattle rustler, the inventor of the lyre, the guider of souls across the River Styx, the manly god of boundaries--stands gracefully here rather than moving purposefully. He likely originally held his kerykeion (herald's staff) in his left hand. A pair of wings are strapped to his feet, and the small rectangular cuttings at the top of his head once held wings that sprang from his laurel-crown. The eyes, once inlaid with silver, glass paste, or stone, would have added vitality to the figure. The lack of interest in the specific delineation of the anatomy and the listless elegance of the pose attest to the decorative quality of this highly refined bronze. It is a sophisticated work, executed in a mannered, classicizing style that sets the god apart from the mundane world of the statuette's human owner and invites contemplat

'Juno with a Peacock'. Italy. Venice, Second half of the 16th century (after the model of second half of the 1570s). Dimensions: height: 33,2 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Mercury. Dated: c. 1780/c. 1850. Dimensions: overall: 177 x 48.5 x 94.9 cm (69 11/16 x 19 1/8 x 37 3/8 in.). Medium: bronze. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Giovanni Bologna.

Alessandro Algardi, A Flagellator of Christ, c 1630s A Flagellator of Christ

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875). Suzanne surprise. Terracotta, 1871. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 79393-10 Sketch, model, statuette, terracotta, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Figure of Venus Marina; Paris, France; model about 1710, probably cast later; Bronze; 64.8 x 54.9 x 29.5 cm (25 1,2 x 21 5,8 x 11 5,8 in.)

Bacchus 1554 Domenico Poggini This statue, the earliest signed and dated work by Poggini, is cited in an inventory of 1560 of the possessions of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574).. Bacchus. Domenico Poggini (Italian, Florence 1520-1590 Rome). Italian, Florence. 1554. Marble. Sculpture

Saint Sebastian. Artist: Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) (Italian, 1525-1608). Culture: Italian, Venice. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 21 3/8 × 6 3/8 × 6 3/8 in. (54.3 × 16.2 × 16.2 cm). Date: 1566.The preeminent Venetian sculptor of the late sixteenth century, Alessandro Vittoria was highly productive in diverse media and types of work. He is most closely identified with portrait busts, which collectively create a sober image of Veneto society, but he also produced excellent stucco decorations for palaces and stone statues for churches. In addition, he issued a distinguished series of bronze statuettes -- including thirteen known signed examples -- about half of which have religious subjects, such as Saint John Baptist (formerly in the Venetian church of San Francesco della Vigna), and half mythological ones, such as Mercury (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).1 Saint Sebastian is among the most successful of these bronze statuettes and was a favori

Warrior 16th century Italian. Warrior. Italian. 16th century. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze

Satyr; Benvenuto Cellini (Italian, 1500 - 1571), cast by an Unknown; 1543 - 1545; Bronze; 56.8 × 8.9 × 8.4 cm (22 3,8 × 3 1,2 × 3 5,16 in.)

Around 1500, bronze casting was still in its infancy north of the Alps. While Italian bronze-casters crafted their modelli in wax and clay, Netherlandish and German sculptors still worked from carved wooden models. Their figures - like this pair (which comes from Stift Heilingenkreuz, a Cistercian abbey near Vienna) - thus look rather stiff.

Venus, dranking RaCatrice, C. 1600. Venus stands on a round plinth on the right leg and with the left bent; The upper body bends slightly forward. In the right hand she holds an apple in front of her, which she looks at, the left she has against her chest. The wavy hair is tied together on top of the head. Venice bronze (metal) Venus stands on a round plinth on the right leg and with the left bent; The upper body bends slightly forward. In the right hand she holds an apple in front of her, which she looks at, the left she has against her chest. The wavy hair is tied together on top of the head. Venice bronze (metal)

Bohemian Bear Tamer. Artist: Paul Wayland Bartlett (American, New Haven, Connecticut 1865-1925 Paris). Dimensions: 69 3/8 x 33 x 45 1/2 in. (176.2 x 83.8 x 115.6 cm). Date: 1885-87, cast 1888.Trained at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Bartlett completed Bohemian Bear Tamer, his first large group, when he was just twenty-two years old. It depicts a well-muscled Gypsy with two bear cubs, one diligently responding to the animated snap of its trainer's fingers, the other lazily scratching behind its ear. The bears are not aware of their potential brute power; thus, the underlying theme is man's superiority as the thinking species. Bartlett was inspired not only by itinerant animal shows he had seen around Paris but also by intense contemporary interest in the evolutionary principles of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and the 1868 discovery of Paleolithic skeletons at Cro-Magnon, in southwestern France. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hercules with club and apples of Hesperides, bronze statuette by Baccio Bandinelli

Statue of Mercury, the Roman god of financial gain, sitting.

Greek art. Statue of Silenus, a satyr and minor god of drunkenness, as a man and a horse. Corinthian workshop. Dated between 540-530 B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

The Wrath of Neptune, late 1500s to early 1600s. Cast after a model by Tiziano Minio (Italian, 1511/12-1552). Bronze; overall: 36.7 x 17.2 x 19.4 cm (14 7/16 x 6 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.).

A Youth at a Stream 1844 John Henry Foley Irish Reduction of a model exhibited at Westminster Hall, London, in 1844. A bronze sculpture of this subject was for sale in 1846; another statue of this subject was made for the Royal Horticultural Society in 1864. Has been linked to the lines source not given: "Playful and wanton to the stream he trips,/And dips his foot.". A Youth at a Stream. John Henry Foley (Irish, Dublin 1818-1874 London). British. 1844. Lead with golden brown lacquer patination. Sculpture

Infant. Girolamo Campagna (Italian, 1549/1550 - 1625)

John Cheere, 1709-1787, British, Samson Slaying a Philistine, between 1740 and 1770. Lead.

Nude Male Runner 17th-18th century European. Nude Male Runner 203983

Amor, , 1500 - 1525 Italy bronze (metal) Italy bronze (metal)

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Silenus". Patinated plaster, before 1885. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Greek divinity, Greek, drunkenness, father, mythological character, patina patina, satyr, belly, mythology, naked

Cleopatra first quarter 16th century Severo Calzetta da Ravenna Italian Cast identically, the two statuettes (see also 10.9.2) demonstrate the vicissitudes of Renaissance bronzes. One has been stripped of its lacquer, the other has been endowed with a greenish patina that emulates archaeological verdigris.. Cleopatra. Severo Calzetta da Ravenna (Italian, active by 1496, died before 1543). Italian, Ravenna or Padua. first quarter 16th century. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze

Statue of an Athlete, 1-100. Italy, Roman, 1st Century. Marble; overall: 173.9 cm (68 7/16 in.).

The Kritios Boy or the Kritios Ephebe, marble statue

Removal of Orithye by Borée ", 18th century. According to a model of Louis-Simon Boizot for the Manufacture de Sèvres, 1786. Ronde-Bosse. Bronze group. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 28845-5 Removing, removing, Manufacture Sevres, Greek mythological character, Northern Wind Personification, 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th 18th century, mythology

Bronze youth. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: H. 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm). Date: ca. 470 B.C..The gesture of this magnificent nude figure suggests that he is an athlete expressing veneration. The base makes it likely that the work was offered as a dedication. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hercules early 17th century Niccolò Roccatagliata Italian. Hercules 195730

ESCULTURA-MUJER ALDEANA. Author: CRISTINO MALLO-CRISTINO GOMEZ GONZALEZ. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Peasant in his round". Patinated plaster, between 1889 and 1898. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Farmer, man, work, peasant, pattero patina, statuette, torso, work, worker, face, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century

Italy, Sicily, Selinunte, Statuette representing an ephebus, bronze

Italy, Sicily, Adrano, Statuette representing an ephebos (ephebe), bronze

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Venus after the Bath ca. 1590-1610 After a model by Giambologna Netherlandish. Venus after the Bath. After a model by Giambologna (Netherlandish, Douai 1529-1608 Florence). Italian, Florence. ca. 1590-1610. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze

Edgar Degas, Dancer Holding Her Right Foot in Her Right Hand, possibly 1900 1911 Dancer Holding Her Right Foot in Her Right Hand

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia55. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

'Gall Killing Himself and His Wife'. Italy. Florence, Early 18th century. Dimensions: height: 56,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Saint Michael Overcoming Satan 1842 Cast by Edward William Wyon This work was based on a composition dating between 1819 and 1824 by John Flaxman (1755-1826). It was cast by Edward William Wyon (1811-1885) for the Art Union of London.. Saint Michael Overcoming Satan. Cast by Edward William Wyon (British, 1811-1885). British, London. 1842. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze

Hercules with mallet, skin of the Nemean lion and golden apples. Colossal gilded bronze statue. Sculpted probably between 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. Found near Campo dei Fiori in 1864. Pio-Clementino Museum. Vatican Museums.

fine arts, ancient world, Parthia, statuette, Herakles Nergal, bronze, Hatra / Cadra, 2nd century A.D., height: 22,5 cm, Iraqi National Museum Baghdad,

'Faun'. Italy. Venice, Late 15th - 16th century. Dimensions: height: 31,4 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio, Pomona Pomona

DIscobolus (Discus Thrower). Roman copy (2nd c AD) of an ancient Greek. Sculptor Myron, 5th c. BC. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy. Author: Miron.

Pippa Passes, c. 1916. Louise Allen (American, d. 1953). Bronze; overall: 69.2 cm (27 1/4 in.).

Priapus spreading oil on his erected penis, by Unknown artist, 1st Century, Bronze. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum: 27732. Whole artwork. Priapus phallus man oil

Regardant La Plante De Son Pied Droit, Nu Degas, Edgar(1834-1917 French) Bronze Christie's Images, London, England

Ferdinando Tacca (1619-1686). Italian Baroque sculptor. School of Florence. Venus and Adonis. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.

'Paris'. Rome, 2nd century. Dimensions: height: 110,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Knaap with two fighting roosters, Paul Romain Chevré, c. 1850 - 1950 bronze (metal) bronze (metal)

Sculpture The Fugitive by Walther Kniebe 1921, black, figure, arms, movement, gesture, town hall, Bad Honnef, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Discobolus. Marble Roman copy. Original made of bronze in the 5th century B.C.. Rome, Thermae Museum. Author: Miron. Location: MUSEO DE LAS TERMAS. Rome. ITALIA.

Despairing Adolescent. Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840-1917 Meudon). Culture: French. Dimensions: Overall (wt. confirmed): 17 3/16 × 5 1/2 × 5 5/8 in., 12.5 lb. (43.7 × 14 × 14.3 cm, 5.7 kg). Date: modeled 1882, cast 1980.This figure was extracted from its original context as one of the damned on the lower section of the right panel of the Gates of Hell. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Statue of Nike from western gable of Temple of Asclepius in Epidaurus

Crouching Venus, 17th century, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (38.74 x 26.67 x 14.29 cm), Bronze, France, 17th century

Statue of a Kouros; Greece (); about 530 B.C. or modern forgery; Dolomitic marble; 206.1 × 54.6 × 51 cm (81 1,8 × 21 1,2 × 20 1,16 in.)

Edgar Degas, Dancer Putting on Her Stocking, 1890s 1911 Dancer Putting on Her Stocking

Statue of Dionysus, by Unknown artist, 1st Century, bronze, lost wax casting. Italy: Lazio: Rome: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme: Sala VII - inv. 1060. Whole artwork. Front view Statue of Dionysus recovered into the Tiber bed during the foundation works of a Garibaldi bridge pier (1885). The restoration in 1984-1985 has removed the 19C stucco works

Carabin, François-Rupert (n.1862-03-27-D.1932-11-28), racket player (main title), 1920. Bronze. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Florence, Italy - Circa June 2021: Flying Mercury by Giambologna, 1580. This is his most famous sculpture, symbol of Italian Renaissance

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GREEK ART. Kouros. Funerary statue. Parian marble. Crowned the tomb of Aristodikos. Found in the area Mesogeia (Attica). Dated 510-500 B.C.. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.

BronzeHermes. After: Polykleitos, Greek, active ca. 450-415 B.C.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia93. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

'Hercules Fighting the Centaur (copy)'. Russia, St Petersburg, First half of the 19th century. Dimensions: height: 52,0 cm; length: 41,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Italy, Pompeii. House of the Faun. Dancing Faun. Impluvium in the Atrium. Copy (the original sculpture is preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Naples).

Mercury. Greece, Hellenistic period (325-150 B.C.). Sculpture. Bronze

Fourth Position Front, on the Left Leg. Dated: c. 1885/1890. Dimensions: overall without base: 60.3 x 37.8 x 34.1 cm (23 3/4 x 14 7/8 x 13 7/16 in.) height (of figure): 56.8 cm (22 3/8 in.). Medium: brown wax and cork. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: EDGAR DEGAS.

Grande Arabesque, Troisieme Temps, bronze, Edgar Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Corpus. Culture: German, Nymphenburg. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 13 3/8 x 8 5/16 x 1 3/4 in. (34 x 21.1 x 4.4 cm);Other (cross): 18 7/8 in. (47.9cm). Factory: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory (German, 1747-present). Modeler: Franz Anton Bustelli (Swiss, Locarno ca. 1720-1763 Munich). Date: ca. 1755. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Statuette of Mercury. Unknown

Greek school. Apollo Sauroctonos. Vatican, Pio-Christian Museum. Author: PRAXITELES. Location: MUSEOS VATICANOS-GALERIA DE LAS ESTATUAS. VATICANO. APOLO SAUROCTONO.

Statue of Shri Yogacharya B K S Iyengar (Guruji) is a living legend who has taught yoga in unique way

Thetis Running, c. 1527. Workshop of Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c.1496-c.1543). Bronze; overall: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.).

Statue of John the Baptist, Jupiter Temple, Palace of Diocletian, Split, Croatia, Europe

EL ESPINARIO - SIGLO III AC - ESCULTURA HELENISTICA. Location: GALERIA DE LOS UFFIZI. Florenz. ITALIA.

Perseus with the Head of Medusa is a bronze sculpture made by Benvenuto Cellini in 1545. from the back, you can see the self-image of the sculptor Cellini on the backside of Perseus' helmet.

Georg Kolbe, Dancer, 1912 , Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.

Honoré Daumier, Ratapoil, model 1851, cast c 1891 Ratapoil

Corpus, c. 1700, Master of Guadalcanal, 24 7/8 × 15 × 4 3/4 in. (63.2 × 38.1 × 12.07 cm), Ivory, Spain, 18th century, With extraordinary anatomical precision, this sculpture focuses on the suffering of Christ, who is shown still alive and in extreme physical pain. Ivory was the material of choice for depictions of Jesus, not merely because it was an exotic material imported at great expense from southern Africa, but also because at this time the elephant was interpreted as a symbol of Jesus. This figure was carved out of an unusually large tusk of ivory, which determined the C-shaped movement that underscores the bodys suffering.

Girl with a banner; Wici, Henryk (1908-1943); 1940-1941 (1940-00-00-1941-00-00);Transfer (provenance), full -gone sculptures, allegorical scenes

Black marble and alabaster statue of Old Fisherman, Roman copy of Hellenistic original

Naked female figure ,, 1525 - 1575 Italy bronze (metal) Italy bronze (metal)

Apollo or Adonis figurine; 1st century BC (-100-00-00--1-00-00), 4th century p. E. (-400-00-00--301-00-00);Semerau-Siemianowski, Władysław (1849-1938), Semerau-Siemianowski, Władysław (1849-1938)-collection, gift (provenance)

DIADUMENO, COPIA ROMANA EN MARMOL PROCEDENTE DE DELOS, DE UN ORIGINAL EN BRONCE REALIZADO POR POLICLETO HACIA 430/420 A.C. Author: POLICLETO (450 AC-420 AC). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-ESCULTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Apollo C.525 BC Greek Art(- ) Bronze

Cupid probably 18th century Northern European. Cupid 204860

Terracotta statuette of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head) 1st century B.C. Greek Copy of a Greek bronze statue of ca. 430 B.C. by PolykleitosConnoisseurship and the origins of the discipline of art history began in the Hellenistic period. Greek statues of the fifth century B.C., notably works by Polykleitos, Phidias, and others, were sought out and frequently replicated. The pose of the famous statue of the Diadoumenos by Polykleitos is recognizable in this statuette, but the slender, graceful forms conform to Late Hellenistic taste.Although terracotta was one of the most abundantly available and inexpensive materials of sculptural production in antiquity, it was used to make miniature copies less widely than might be expected. Apparently, only a few centers of production concentrated on this sculptural genre, and those that did limited their choices of subject considerably. The Greek city of Smyrna on the west coast of Asia Minor was among the most important copyi

Pan of Rohallion. Frederick W. MacMonnies; American, 1863-1937; Cast by E. Gruet Jeune; Paris, France. Date: 1890. Dimensions: 75.9 × 26.4 × 27.6 cm (30 × 10 3/8 × 10 7/8 in.). Bronze. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Man 15th century French. Man 464355 French, Man, 15th century, Walnut, Overall: 13 1/8 x 4 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (33.4 x 10.4 x 6.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.375)

The Back, Henri Matisse, 1952-1956, Sculpture Garden, MOMA, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Nike Polska; Wittig, Edward (1879-1941); 1917-1918 (1917-00-00-1918-00-00);Nike (Mitol.), State Art collections (Warsaw - 1922-1939) - collections, character groups, monumental designs, allegorical scenes

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia18. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

'Venus Caressing Cupid'. France, First half of the 18th century. Dimensions: 27x25 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: French sculptor, first half of the 18th century.

Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back, Right Leg Forward modeled possibly ca. 1895, cast 1920 Edgar Degas French Upon Degas's death in 1917, more than 150 figurative sculptures were found in his studio. Most were made of fragile wax, clay, and plastiline (a wax- and oil-based modeling material). Many had deteriorated. Only a few were preserved in copies that had been cast from them in plaster. Except for the wax Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (Washington: NGA) none of these sculptures had been publicly exhibited during the artists lifetime.Although Degas had not favored reproducing his sculptures in more permanent materials, his heirs authorized that copies be cast in bronze in order to preserve the compositions and to sell them as finished works. Paul-Albert Bartholomé, a sculptor and Degas's longtime friend, prepared 72 of the figures for casting, a process executed by the distinguished Paris foundry A.-A. Hébrard et Cie. The quality of the Degas bronzes was tightly controlled and

The diver , Diving. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

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