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The sculpture was known through the Roman marble replica found in Herculaneum and conserved in the Naples National Archaeological Museum, but, according to Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, early connoisseurs such as Johann Joachim Winckelmann passed it by in the royal Bourbon collection at Naples without notable comment.
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Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.
This was paralleled in sculpture by the absolute representation of vigorous life, through unnaturally simplified forms.
The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.
The term was also used to describe sculpture and painting that demonstrated a greater degree of naturalism.
No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture.
The casino was a showcase for the Pamphili collection of sculpture, ancient and contemporary, on which Algardi was well able to advise.
The bias of his mind was to sculpture, and the facilities afforded for the gratification of this predilection in the workshop of his grandfather were eagerly improved.
Whatever was likely to forward his advancement in sculpture he studied with ardour.
In 1958 Giacometti was asked to create a monumental sculpture for the Chase Manhattan Bank building in New York, which was beginning construction.
The commission was never completed, however, because Giacometti was unsatisfied by the relationship between the sculpture and the site, and abandoned the project.
In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.
There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.
Magazine, the city's Museum, was once the residence of Prince Salīm, the son of the Emperor Akbar, and presently houses a collection of Mughal and Rajput armour and sculpture.
Gropius was not necessarily against Expressionism, and in fact himself in the same 1919 pamphlet proclaiming this " new guild of craftsmen, without the class snobbery ," described " painting and sculpture rising to heaven out of the hands of a million craftsmen, the crystal symbol of the new faith of the future.
He was more distinguished in architecture than in sculpture.
The Duveen Gallery, sited to the west of the Egyptian, Greek & Assyrian sculpture galleries, was designed to house the Elgin Marbles by the American Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope.
No contemporary painting or sculpture of Confucius survives, and it was only during the Han Dynasty that he was portrayed visually.
The so-called Cimbrian bull (" Cimbrertyren "), a sculpture by Anders Bundgaard, was erected 14 April 1937 on a central town square in Aalborg, the capital of the region of North Jutland.
A student of Classical sculpture, Bernini possessed the unique ability to capture, in marble, the essence of a narrative moment with a dramatic naturalistic realism which was almost shocking.
In myth and cult, fragmentary references and archaic practices remain of the sacred marriage of Hera and Zeus, and at Plataea, there was a sculpture of Hera seated as a bride by Callimachus, as well as the matronly standing Hera.
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The earliest known depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan, dating to the 12th century that portrays a figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard, firing flames and a ball.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art.
Maya Ying Lin ( born October 5, 1959 ) is an American architectural designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art.
As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
He was commissioned to make a maquette for a huge-high public sculpture to be built in Chicago, known usually as the Chicago Picasso.
Ancient Sinhalese stone sculpture and inscriptions are known worldwide and is a main foreign attraction in modern tourism.
* Metaphor: The Tree of Utah is an high sculpture in the Utah Bonneville Salt Flats that is also known as the Tree of Life.
* Lorenzo Ghiberti ( 1378 – 1455 ) was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking.
However, there are only two known references to arch bridges in Han literature, and only a single Han relief sculpture in Sichuan depicts an arch bridge.
Around the same time period, Ron Resch patented some tessellation patterns as part of his explorations into kinetic sculpture and developable surfaces, although his work was not known by the origami community until the 1980s.
Hellenistic architectural sculpture ( 323-31 BC ) was to become more flamboyant, both in the rendering of expression and motion, which is often emphasised by flowing draperies, the Nike Samothrace which decorated a monument in the shape of a ship being a well known example.
Aphrodite of Milos (, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou ), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture.
Casting processes have been known for thousands of years, and widely used for sculpture, especially in bronze, jewellery in precious metals, and weapons and tools.
Standing tall, it was created by sculptor Serena de la Hey and is the largest known sculpture in willow, a traditional local material.
In the last years of his life Miró wrote his most radical and least known ideas, exploring the possibilities of gas sculpture and four-dimensional painting.
Although he is known to have been working in pastel as late as the end of 1907, and is believed to have continued making sculpture as late as 1910, he apparently ceased working in 1912, when the impending demolition of his longtime residence on the rue Victor Massé forced him to move to quarters on the boulevard de Clichy.
He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism.
The elegant St. George and the Dragon relief on the statue's base, executed in schiacciato ( also known as bas-relief or basso rilievo ) is one of the first examples of central-point perspective in sculpture.
They are also known from figurative sculpture, examples of which are to be found at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome and in the group of Niobids ( including Niobe sheltering one of her daughters ) found in Rome in 1583 along with the Wrestlers and brought to the Uffizi in Florence in 1775.
The French Mannerist style of interior decoration of the 16th century is known as the " Fontainebleau style ": it combined sculpture, metalwork, painting, stucco and woodwork, and outdoors introduced the patterned garden parterre.
An epigram on Ladas, the fleetest runner of his time, notes that he was commemorated in a sculpture by Myron ; of Myron's Ladas there is no known copy.
The sculpture known locally as The Tinnies on the outskirts of Strabane, beside the roundabout near the Lifford turn-off
Other expressionist artists known mainly as painters, such as Erich Heckel, also worked with sculpture.
Pine Lake is one of the most eclectic cities in the state, including among its residents a number of locally, regionally and nationally known artists in the fields of music ( Rick Price of the Georgia Satellites, Elise Witt ), fine art ( Richard Cecil ), sculpture, poetry ( Alice Teeter ) and prose and other disciplines.
* Ulric Ellerhusen ( 1879 – 1957 ), sculptor best known for his works of architectural sculpture.
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