Bronze sculpture

1. The title of the first work of art is called David and was created in bronze by Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello. Sculpted around 1446-1460, at 5ft 2 inches, it is the first life-size, freestanding nude created in over a 1000 years. David is currently at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy. The title of the second work of art is called David and was sculpted from an 18ft marble block by the artist and poet Michelangelo. The final product measures at 17ft without the…

have somewhat of a sexual overtone to them. The male statue that I have is a terracotta statuette of the Diadeumenous ( you that is tying a fillet around his head.). From the Hellenistic period during the 1st century B.C.It is a copy of a Greek Bronze Statue of ca.430 B.C by Polykleitos. Although the statuette has no arms or legs.…

Bather is plaster painted to simulate bronze. The exact size of the Bather is 202 by 62.5 by 66.5 cm. Bather, produced at the end of Lipchitz cubist phase, embodies the relationship between form and space at a moment of transition in his oeuvre. Born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz on August 22nd 1891 in Druskininkai, Lithuania, son of Abraham Lipchitz, a young building contractor, and Rachael Leah Krinsky. In…

vs, Standing Buddha (inv. #MH 2012.40.1) The Statuette of a youth, probably Apollo ca. 470 BCE and Standing Buddha, 15th-16th century are both sculptures of significant figures. Each figure is emblematic to a certain culture. The Statuette of a youth, probably Apollo is made of bronze, cast and incised. The Standing Buddha is made out of cast bronze, gold, shell, and resin. The emphasis of the muscularity of the Statuette of a youth, probably Apollo shows how important the body is to the the…

According to Kamm (2009b), the purpose of sculpture was two-fold. The first purpose was "the worship and reverence of images", not just of the religious deities, but also of deceased family members. In the beginning, this was usually a mask or bust that was placed in the atrium of the home. Eventually, they became must larger in size and began to depict, not just the gods or family, but heroes and emperors (Cartwright, 2013). These sculptures were true-to-life, showing emotion, wrinkles, marks,…

Nigeria dominates in the production of sculptured antiquities as it possesses nine-tenths of sculptures aged at greater than a century. The ancient city of Benin in Southern Nigeria has been revered as a source of bronze and ivory sculptures so elegantly crafted that Meyerowitz (1943) describes them as technically perfect. However, after the Benin Massacre and artifact looting of 1897, thousands of these sculptures were…

moved to New York City in 1970 to study at the Arts Students League. He is an artist whose work I found very eye catching. Now his world renowned for his unique sculptures being very oval in shape and funny looking. He makes the sculptures using caster or metal and his unique…

1- what do you see? A free flowing motion sculpture that is made of bronze. Used by specific texture that truly defined the features of the artwork. 2-what do you think the sculpture would look in different angles? perhaps the viewer would see it as rounded vertical. 3- how has the material been used to define the artwork? “The artist often focuses on the face and hand ,so he can express the emotion behind it”. http://www.markhopkinssculpture.com/Pages/AboutUs.php 4-What do you think…

Greek art was that of the human body. Almost all of these sculptures are of nude men. A very common subject was the idealized male body. To Greeks one of the most favorable subject was that of the athlete, as it represented the ideal form. Throughout centuries the idea of beauty was…

("Ancient Greek Pottery”). Sculptures in ancient greece went through a big transition there were periods in which the sculptures had more of a animal like face and throughout the years they transitions into a more lifelike feel. The colonial migration had a great impact on greek art. Most of the pottery was made out of stone,bronze,clay and marble . Stone sculptures did not really survive the years and bronze sculptures were melted down and used for other things. Marble sculpture lasted the…