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Olympic Runner Bronze Grand Tour Sculpture

19th Century

Superb 19th century bronze and gilt bronze bust of the god Belvedere Apollo. Circa 1850. This wonderful grand tour bust is a marvel of refined beauty and elegance, crafted with richl...

Roman verdigris bronze oil lamp. Flying cranes with running Mercury. After the original found in Pompeii. This lamp base would originally have had small oil lamps...

Bronze statue of young goatherder by Oscar Gladenbeck. circa 1900. Signed "Oscar Gladenbeck Friedrichshagen".

Antique bronze sculpture of male nude reading a letter or proclamation. Marble base, 19th century. Unsigned.

Fine Grand Tour bronze sculpture of mercury flying on the wind after Giambologna. Polished rouge marble and bronze attached base. Green marble pedestal. Inscribed Jean de Bologne...

Fine French orientalist bronze statue of David after the battle with Goliath by Antonin Mercie. This subject received the Medal of Honour when it was shown at the Paris Salon des Beaux Arts. Late 19th century. 42" high. Please, contact us for shipping options. Presented by Joseph Dasta Antiques Antonin Mercie(1845-1916) Mercié entered the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and François Jouffroy, and in 1868 gained the Grand Prix de Rome at the age of 23. His first great popular successes were the David and Gloria Victis, which was shown and received the Medal of Honour of the Paris Salon. The bronze was subsequently placed in the Square Montholon.[2] The bronze David was one of his most popular works. The Biblical hero is depicted naked with the head of Goliath at his feet like Donatello's David, but with a turbanned head and sheathing his long sword...

The dynamic nature of this ecstatic pirouette must be experienced from all sides. Whirlwind examines the forces of attraction and separation in a relationship. The couple’s solid bon...

Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951. He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...

Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951. He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...

Dionysisch Big Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classical Contemporary Art The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, NL) show a perfect command of the...

Last Heroic Season Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Mythology The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling a...

Danse Mystique Dance Mystic Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling ...