After the Angevin conquest the city was particularly beautified by the work of the famous sculptor, Boboccio da Piperno, admired by Queen Consort Margherita of Durazzo who took up her abode in Salerno and was buried in the monumental tomb, which is today in the cathedral.

The famed sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen admired her art.

Prominent among Crawford's works was also his statue of an Indian chief, much admired by the English sculptor Gibson, who proposed that a bronze copy of it should be retained in Rome as a lasting monument.

Cushman used her notoriety to promote the works of African American / Native American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, who had become a close friend, and whom Cushman greatly admired.

Aimé-Jules Dalou ( 31 December 1838 – 15 April 1902 ) was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.

She subsequently began attending East Sydney Technical College, studying art under the sculptor Rayner Hoff, a man who encouraged her artistic talent and whom she greatly admired.

Other works of the sculptor were a figure of Artemis at Megara, a group of the Muses, and an Amazon which was greatly admired by the emperor Nero.

Mark Matveyevich Antokolski ( Марк Матве ́ евич Антоко ́ льский in Russian ; 2 November 184014 July 1902 ) was a Litvak-Russian sculptor who was admired for psychological complexity of his historical images and panned for occasional lapses into sentimentalism.

In May 1868, John Henry Foley, sculptor of the monument's Asia group was commissioned to make the portrait, and his sketch model approved in December of that year.

Iraq's leading sculptor, Adil Kamil, won the commission to design and execute the construction of the arches, which were based on a concept sketch made by president Saddam Hussein.

Three of his paintings were acquired by the Royal Painting Collection ; Model Class at the Art Academy and A toung artist looking at a sketch through a mirror from 1826 and the monumentally sized A sculptor working with a live model from 1827.

It is useful as it allows an author to add depth and understanding to his work, like a sculptor adding layer and layer to his statue, building it up into a beautiful work of art.

The sculptor looked at him, let the color drain out of his face, grinned, and looked down into his drink, a bad Martini made with raw Italian gin.

The sculptor looked at him, bugeyed and amazed, angry.

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

Alston urged him to also attend the Harlem Community Art Center, led by the sculptor Augusta Savage.

The 3rd Duke lent the vase to Josiah Wedgwood, who had already had it described to him as " the finest production of Art that has been brought to England and seems to be the very apex of perfection to which you are endeavoring " by the sculptor John Flaxman.

He originally saw himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, and was encouraged to continue after Paul Guillaume, an ambitious young art dealer, took an interest in his work and introduced him to sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi.

In the spring of 1917, the Russian sculptor Chana Orloff introduced him to a beautiful 19-year-old art student named Jeanne Hébuterne who had posed for Tsuguharu Foujita.

He felt he was more of a sculptor than a painter, and was suspicious that such a large-scale project was being offered to him by enemies as a set-up for an inevitable fall.

In 1930 she bore him a son, the painter and sculptor Daniel Milhaud, who was the couple's only child.

A bust of him by the sculptor Victor Nicolas, is in the Place St Pierre and the Lycée de Brignoles carries his name.

Vigeland came to the attention of sculptor Brynjulf Bergslien, who supported him and gave him practical training.

A similar study was made of the anatomy of horses ; acknowledging Eakins ' expertise, in 1891 his friend the sculptor William Rudolf O ' Donovan asked him to collaborate on the commission to create bronze equestrian reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant for the Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza In Brooklyn.

Vasari said of him " He did nothing but make bozzetti and finished little ", and modern commentators have remarked on the vitality of Bandinelli's terracotta models contrasted with the finished marbles: " all the freshness of his first approach to a subject was lost in the laborious execution in marble ... A brilliant draughtsman and excellent small-scale sculptor, he had a morbid fascination for colossi which he was ill-equipped to execute.

O ' Connell Monument, the memorial to Daniel O ' Connell, 19th century nationalist leader, by sculptor John Henry Foley, which stands at the entrance to the street named after him.

This gives the sculptor more control and allows him to produce finer details on the prototype.

The sculptor Gustav Vigeland ( 1869 – 1943 ) was born in Mandal, and has a museum dedicated to him here.

Next to Phidias, Myron and Kresilas, he is considered the most important sculptor of Classical antiquity: the 4th-century catalogue attributed to Xenocrates ( the " Xenocratic catalogue "), which was Pliny's guide in matters of art, ranked him between Phidias and Myron.

Attracted to the court of Philip II, he painted him and the young Alexander with such success that he became the recognized court painter of Macedon, and his picture of Alexander holding a thunderbolt ranked in the minds of many with the Alexander with the spear of the sculptor Lysippus.

However, his friend, the sculptor and restorer Bartolomeo Cavaceppi managed to persuade him to travel to Munich and Vienna, where he was received with honor by Maria Theresa.

With him she had two daughters, Maria Anna ( 1902 – 1907 ), who died of scarlet fever or diphtheria, and Anna ( 1904 – 1988 ), who became a sculptor.

In fact many sources refer to him solely as sculptor.

Henry Moore, referring to his statues for the facade of Siena Cathedral, called him " the first modern sculptor ".

Broadbent was born in Holton cum Beckering, the son of Doreen " Dee " Broadbent ( née Findlay ), a sculptor, and Roy Laverick Broadbent, an artist, sculptor, interior designer, and furniture maker who turned a former church into a theatre named after him.

You still have your paper hat and you're wearing it, but then, it is an extraordinary paper hat and, in addition to anything else you may be, you are also the sculptor who created that most peculiar dame out in the back yard.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

The model filled Italy with admiration ; the marble was procured, and the chisel of the sculptor ready to be applied to it, when the jealousy of churchmen as to the site, or some other cause, deprived the country of the projected work.

FDR commissioned sculptor Walter Russell to design a monument to be dedicated to the first hero of the war.

He also immediately commissioned a representative tomb from the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger to be erected in the Sistine Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

For example, a charioteer, a sculptor or a warrior could be described as sophoi in their occupations.

From an inscription that was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch ; earlier, it was mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles.

Religious figures such as Domingo de Soto, Pius XII, Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Saint John of the Cross have their place within the city urban sculpture, the first work of Ortega and the rest of José María García Moro, sculptor prosperous Segovia who must also be a Monument to the Youth located in the Plaza del Conde de Cheste.

At the time the marble quarries of Paros were at their best ; nor could any marble be finer for the purposes of the sculptor than that of which the Hermes from Olympia ( illustration ).

The room used by Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II, has a fireplace by Jean Goujon, a French sculptor of the Fontainebleau School, which bears the initials of Henry II and Catherine de ' Medici: interlaced Hs and Cs that could be considered as forming the D of " Diane ".

An extract states: Mr. William Townsend of Oxford, and Mr. William Smith of Warwick, were employed to be masons ; Mr. John Philipps to be the carpenter and joiner ; Mr. George Devall to be plumber ; Mr. Townsend junior to be stone carver ; Mr. Linel of Long-acre, London, to be carver in wood ; Mr. Artari, an Italian, to be their plaisterer in the fret work way ; Mr. Michael Rysbrack to be sculptor, to cut the Doctor's figure in marble ; and Mr. Blockley to be locksmith.

By the time he was twenty, Orchardson had mastered the essentials of his art, and had produced at least one picture which might be accepted as representative, a portrait of sculptor John Hutchison.

They were: Alfred Bayes ( 1832 – 1909 ), painter ; Walter Bayes ( 1869 – 1856 ), painter ; Gilbert Bayes ( 1872 – 1952 ), sculptor ; and Jessie Bayes ( 1876 – 1970 ), painter ( some of her work can be see at Lumbutts Methodist Church, Lumbutts, Todmorden ).

The finest marbles for sculpture have no or few stains ( some natural stain can be seen in the sculpture shown at left, which the sculptor has skillfully incorporated into the sculpture ).

Or the sculptor may begin with a clearly defined model to be copied in stone.

He must be careful to strike the end of the tool accurately ; the smallest miscalculation can damage the stone, not to mention the sculptor ’ s hand.