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Classic Sculptures and Busts

Elegant sculptures and busts representing female figures and historical personalities, highlighting classical styles and artistic craftsmanship.

Venus de' Medici; Pietro Cipriani (Italian, about 1680 - before 1745); Italy; 1722 - 1724; Bronze; 155.3 cm (61 1,8 in.)
Venus de' Medici; Pietro Cipriani (Italian, about 1680 - before 1745); Italy; 1722 - 1724; Bronze; 155.3 cm (61 1,8 in.)
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Ideal Female Heads; Augustin Pajou (French, 1730 - 1809); n.d; Terracotta;
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Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "False reward". Beige terracotta Bistre, 1895. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Farmer, beige bistre, reaper, false, man, hammer, peasant, portrait, rebatter, rebut, terracotta
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The Thinker (Le Penseur), bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin. The work shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought and is often used as an image to represent philosophy. 1904
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Campania Napoli Naples S. Lorenzo Maggiore86. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Sculpture, architecture, architectural sculpture (including Roman spolia) 13-14th century Chapter house; sarcophagi, gravestones; wall painting. Fragment of mosaic; sculptural fragments in the Sala Capitolare. Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, ceiling painting fresco cycle; prints depicting Venice c. 1845 (4), sculpture; life-size creche figures dressed in original Neapolitan costume Church restored in 1882, 1926, 1944; excavations under the transept undertaken between 1958-1962, and in the cloister in 1976, have revealed remains of a Roman macellum (market), street, and the paleochristian basilica of the 6th c. AD. Antiquities: Pottery: black-glazed, archaic banded, domestic wares, bucchero; architectural terracottas, statuettes, lamps, sculpture fragments Object Notes: 3 color negatives with no prints at the end. General Notes: Most objects/paintings/frescoes unidentified. Three batches
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England, London, Courtauld Gallery, Sculpture of Dancer by Edgar Degas
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Head in Brass, Rudolf Belling, 1925, New National Gallery, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.
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Decorative antique statue of a woman
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Bust of Pope Pius VI (Giovanni Angelo Braschi, 1717-1799) late 18th century Christian Friedrich Hecker German Although he grew pudgy with age, Pius VI (r. 1775-99) was invariably praised as a fine figure of a man and was more frequently captured in hardstone than any pontiff before or since. His important collection of ancient glyptics was looted and dispersed during the French occupation of Rome.. Bust of Pope Pius VI (Giovanni Angelo Braschi, 1717-1799) 198351
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Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905). Mermaid. Terracotta, 1887. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Woman, fish tail, sirene, terracotta, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century
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Madrid, 04/01/2019. Alberto Giacometti exhibition at the Prado Museum. Photo: Isabel Permuy Archdc.
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Lizard ca. 1887 Emmanuel Frémiet French This ceramic sculpture of an imaginary animal is the product of two unusual and creative collaborations: the first between the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and the architect Viollet le-Duc, and the second between Frémiet and the ceramist Emile Muller. In the early 1870s Frémiet supplied plaster models of four fantastic creatures for the medieval chteau of Pierrefonds, which Viollet-le-Duc was restoring for Napoleon III. Viollet-le-Duc's restorations were intended to embody the spirit of the ruined feudal castle, and Frémiet's sculptures for Pierrefonds deliberately evoked a highly romanticized medieval past. The four plaster animals were carved in stone in the mid-i88os; several years later Frémiet arranged for Muller's ceramic factory, La Grande Tuilerie, to cast the animals in stoneware. In the cast stoneware versions Frémiet and Muller were able to introduce color through the use of copper-based glazes. The mottled rich red and turquoise glaze w
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Figurines
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Angel 18th century Attributed to Giuseppe Sanmartino Italian In 1964, Loretta Hines Howard generously presented to the Museum over 140 Neapolitan crèche figures, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. The varied assortment includes figures from the three traditional scenes of a complete Neapolitan presepio: the Nativity, with angels, shepherds, and sheep; the procession of the three Magi, with their colorful retinue of attendants; and the varied and gay crowd of country and town people thronging the tavern, or inn, of Bethlehem the diversorium mentioned by St. Luke, where on the Holy Night there was no place for Mary and Joseph. Averaging between twelve and fifteen inches in height, according to the position they were to take in perspective in the stage set, the figures are pliable and can be given poses at will, according to their facial expressions. Their bodies are made of tow and wire, their arms and legs are finely carved of wood, and their heads and shoulders ar
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Portrait of Caracalla, by Unknown artist, 2nd Century d. C.,, very fine grain Greek marble. Italy. Lazio. Rome. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Sala XVIII - inv. 125565. Whole artwork. Rear view - curly hair beard face. From Rome, Via Cassia at km 11.5 (1948). State of preservation of missing curl on forehead, tip of nose, part of right ear pavilion and a part of left ear. Chippings
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Cherub second half 18th century Italian, Naples In 1964, Loretta Hines Howard generously presented to the Museum over 140 Neapolitan crèche figures, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. The varied assortment includes figures from the three traditional scenes of a complete Neapolitan presepio: the Nativity, with angels, shepherds, and sheep; the procession of the three Magi, with their colorful retinue of attendants; and the varied and gay crowd of country and town people thronging the tavern, or inn, of Bethlehem the diversorium mentioned by St. Luke, where on the Holy Night there was no place for Mary and Joseph. Averaging between twelve and fifteen inches in height, according to the position they were to take in perspective in the stage set, the figures are pliable and can be given poses at will, according to their facial expressions. Their bodies are made of tow and wire, their arms and legs are finely carved of wood, and their heads and shoulders are modeled of
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Museum of schifanoia palace: miniatures, ferrara, italy
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Head of Christ and head of the Animula of the Virgin, by Arnolfo di Cambio, workshop Arnolfo di Cambio, 1296 - 1310, 13th Century -14th Century, marble. Italy: Tuscany: Florence: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore Museum. Whole artwork. Faces heads Christ soul Mary Virgin girl
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White sculpture of an unknown goddess, Mahabalipuram, India, Asia
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FIGURA - EXPOSICION EN EL PALACIO DE CRISTAL. Author: Henry Moore. Location: RETIRO, EL. MADRID. SPAIN.
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AGRIPINA MENOR - 15/59 DC - MADRE DE NERON. Location: BRITISH MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.
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England, London, Westminster Abbey, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries, Funeral Effigy Made of Wax and Wood of Frances Stuart Duchess of Richmond
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Castle Gödöllå, Residence The Austria Empress and Hungarian Queen Elisabeth, model SISI Before the Sisi Bust at Castle 1033903063