Mark Beard

Statue of Athlete: Large Academic Style Bronze Figurative Sculpture of Nude Male

Figurative still life installation sculpture of wrinkled tee shirt Tee-Shirt, 2019 by Kate Hamilton glassine paper and thread 22 x 20 inches (depth dimensions variable) This contemp...

Child's Shirt, 2010 Figurative installation sculpture of wrinkled tee shirt glassine paper and thread 19 x 24 inches (depth dimensions variable) This contemporary installation sculp...

Contemporary figurative still life installation sculpture of women's blue print shirt 'Formal Shirt with Blue Stencil Print', made by Kate Hamilton in 2012 Glassine paper, thread, bu...

Figurative installation sculpture of women's undergarment 'White Slip', made in Kate Hamilton 2011 glassine paper, thread, bra strap connector 41 x 21 inches - depth variable This...

Figurative still life installation sculpture of a wrinkled women's slip 'Stenciled Slip', 2012 glassine paper, thread, bra strap connectors, ribbon wire, spray pain 41 x 21 inches (d...

Plaster, sand, & paint on found objects 11 x 10 x 3 inches Base is pictured separately from sculpture but is included This black and white hanging relief sculpture was created by Hu...

Sculpture from the Ballet series. The series is dedicated to classical ballet and includes over 30 sculptur...

Bronze fountain sculpture of Cupid hold a fish. This beautiful bronze sculpture features intricate details and has a nice natural patina.

Monumental 19th century bronze figure of one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture, the Venus de Milo. The sculpture is finely cast and exhibits a beautiful brown patina overall. The "Fonderia Chiurazzi Napoli" embossed seal is visible at the base of the sculpture. Worship of Aphrodite continued throughout the Roman period. Known as Venus, she came to symbolize Rome's imperial power. Like her Greek counterpart Aphrodite, Venus was intimately associated with love and beauty, yet other elements were distinctive to the Roman goddess. Venus's first temples were erected in Rome during the 200s B.C. to solicit her assistance in battles, and individual leaders later allied themselves with the deity. Julius Caesar and his heir, Augustus, forged particularly explicit ties to Venus, claiming descent through her son, the Trojan hero Aeneas. The goddess was repeatedly represented in civic architecture and on coins, and her attractive figure became symbolic of Roman power throughout the empire. Artist Biography: In 1905, one of the best Neapolitan chasers of the time, Gennaro Chiurazzi, recalling his sculpture master Pietro Masulli praised him highly for the fact of being the first to have marked in Naples art a completely new path, opposite to the one of the Art Academies: an artistic manufacturing that could be applied also to the industry of the time, without the risk of becoming serial. The typology of product, unique and refined, to which Chiurazzi refers to, is the one that had already made him famous everywhere: bronze and life-size reproduction of classical and Renaissance sculptures. Each Chiurazzi manufacture was obtained thanks to the lost wax investment casting technique (realized on casts of Greek and Roman originals preserved at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Musei Vaticani, Musei Capitolini and Museo Borghese in Rome, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria degli Uffizi and Museo Nazionale in Florence), refined then by the hands of a master chaser. The chance, unique in the history, to create casts from works of such important museums, gave the chance to the Chiurazzi Foundry to have a gallery of around 1.500 plaster casts of classical sculptures – from Doriforo to Discobolo, from Ercole Farnese to Laocoonte, from various Venuses to imperial statues, from Hellenic busts discovered in Ercolano to every kind of objects coming from Pompeii and so on –, Renaissance and modern (from Michelangelo’s Mosè to Cellini’s Perseo, from Bernini’s masterpieces to Canova’s). This fact gave the chance to the Neapolitan foundry to gain clients all over the world: not only reigning families in Europe and in the East, but also and especially tens of large Anglo-Saxon museums on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean that, to show classical beauty in all its perfect shapes and to revive the taste for the Ancient, do not hesitate to have Chiurazzi bronzes...

Deborah Ballard draws inspiration from life experiences, body language, and world travels. She develops and refines her ideas with a personal language derived from observing the huma...

Hugo Lederer's masterpiece "The Fencer" "Der Fechter' from the cast of 1903 depicts the quintessential muscular male nude in an ideal classic pose. It ...

Evelyn Beatrice Longman was a trailblazing female artist getting major commissions at the very begining of the 20th century. Having lived in New York City, I used to walk by the li...