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Italian Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of a Warrior After The Antique Etruscan

after 1800

Emilio Zocchi (Florence, 5 March 1835 – Florence, 10 January 1913) was an Italian sculptor and a Professor at the academy of fine arts in Florence. Emilio learned his first steps ...

Emilio Zocchi (Florence, 5 March 1835 – Florence, 10 January 1913) was an Italian sculptor and a Professor at the academy of fine arts in Florence. Emilio learned his first steps ...

An important grand tour sculpture in white statuary marble of Apollo Belvedere, carved in Italy in the 19th Century. The original Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) is a worldwide celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity; it is an original Roman creation of Hadrianic date (c. 120–140 AD), though in a Hellenistic style. The distinctively Roman footwear is one reason scholars believe it is not a copy of an original Greek statue; It was rediscovered in central Italy in the late 15th century during the Italian Renaissance and was placed on semi-public display in the Vatican , where it remains. From the mid-18th century it was considered the greatest ancient sculpture by ardent neoclassicists, and for centuries it epitomized the ideals of aesthetic perfection for Europeans and westernized parts of the world. Before its installation in the Cortile delle Statue of the Belvedere palace in the Vatican, the Apollo—which seems to have been discovered in 1489 apparently received very little notice from artists. It was, however, sketched twice during the last decade of the 15th century in the book of drawings by a pupil of Domenico Ghirlandaio, now at the Escorial.Though it has always been known to have belonged to Giuliano della Rovere before he became pope, as Julius II, its placement has been confused until as recently as 1986: Cardinal della Rovere,who held the titulus of San Pietro in Vincoli, stayed away from Rome for the decade during Alexander VI's papacy (1494–1503); in the interim, the Apollo stood in his garden at SS. Apostoli, Deborah Brown has shown, and not at his titular church, as had been assumed. Once it was installed in the Cortile, however, it immediately became famous in artistic circles and a demand for copies of it arose. The Mantuan sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, called "L'Antico", made a careful wax model of it, which he cast in bronze, finely finished and partly gilded, to figure in the Gonzaga collection, and in further copies in a handful of others. Albrecht Dürer reversed the Apollo's pose for his Adam in a 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve, suggesting that he saw it in Rome. L'Antico and Dürer saw it, the Apollo was probably still in the personal collection of della Rovere, who, once he was pope as Julius II, transferred the prize in 1511 to the small sculpture court of the Belvedere, the palazzetto or summerhouse that was linked to the Vatican Palace by Bramante's large Cortile del Belvedere. It became the Apollo of the Cortile del Belvedere, and the name has remained with it. In addition to Dürer, several major artists during the late Renaissance sketched...

An impressive stone sculpture of Buddha In the style of the Tang and Wei Dynasties hand carved in the 21st Century.

This work, carved in white marble, portrays a noblewoman with impeccable features and hair partly covered by a headdress and partly flowing in curls and lying down to the neck in the...

A very interesting and important grand tour sculpture of Polyhymnia from an Italian sculptor artist of the 19th century, after the antique and original sculpture knew as "Polimnia of the Horti Psei Veteris, displayed at the Museum of Rome, Centrale Montemartini. Muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn, dance and eloquence, as well as agriculture and pantomime. The Horti Spei Veteris were a large imperial...

Nymph Bronze Sculpture Nude Girl Mythology Green Patina Hair In Stock - Plexiglass pedestal extra 10 cm The statues of Erwin Meijer are subtle with a recogni...

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Aquila Bronze Sculpture on pedestal of marble Hight bronze 57 cm with pedestal of marble (included) 68 cm Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze...

Ex Nihilo Fragment 7 is a detail from the full-scale plaster from the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of the Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathe...

"GRAPPOLOS, 2023" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often p...