Alabaster Nude Sculptures

An important grand tour sculpture of the crouching Venus carved in white alabaster . The original Crouching Aphrodite was a bronze sculpture by Doidalsa, datable to 250 BC. approxim...

The sculpture a 19th Italian and probably tuscan work after the original opera of Étienne Maurice Falconet , represents a young woman taking a bath, identified with the goddess Aphrodite-Venus, portrayed in the act of diving into sacred waters; in fact, the girl is depicted in an upright position, with her torso leaning forward and her left leg extended to allow her toes to touch the water. Slightly bent, her right arm is dropped onto her left leg and holds a thin drapery between her fingers. Her left arm, stretched along her side and leaning against a trunk as if to want to bind and express an earthly dimension of the scene. The young woman's face is turned sideways, ideally turned towards a spectator who caught her in the act and was almost uncovered. The face of the young woman, with classic features enriched by an enigmatic and barely hinted smile, is framed by soft locks of hair gathered on top of the head with a ribbon. Étienne Maurice Falconet (1 December 1716 – 24 January 1791) was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze...

The sculpture is a marble representation of a draped Vestal Virgin, the priestesses of Vesta, goddess of hearth and home, whose duty it was to keep a sacred fire burning in her tem...

This gorgeous marble sculpture falls in that magic area between abstraction and representation. It loosely depicts a woman combing her hair, but really is about the beautiful curves and lines. Stunning veined alabaster. A substantial sculpture, weighing in at 50 pounds. I've included a shot showing the striations the artist carved into the woman's hair. Comes mounted on a wooden base. Here are some biographical details about the artist gleaned from AskArt, very impressive to know his work was shown at the Met, arguably America's premier art museum, in 1951, and to be called "preeminent among American sculptors" by a critic at a major paper is also notable! Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, with our firm guarantee of satisfaction. "Ralph N. Hurst September 4, 1918 - December 7, 2003 Since his first major competitive exhibition "American Sculpture 1951" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Art USA: '58" at Madison Square Garden in New York, Ralph Hurst...

Exceptional neoclassical Italian alabaster and iridescent polychrome metal sculpture of Paulina Bonaparte Borghese, circa 1880. This iconic, elegant sculpture depicts Paulina Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (Venus (Victorius) after the famous model by Antonio Canova which is now at the Borghese Gallery in Rome. The nude figure reclining on an iridescent polychrome rainbow chaise lounge holding an apple in her hand on a black marble base with bronze paw feet. This iconic marble figure is after the celebrated sculpture by Antonio Canova of Pauline Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte and wife of Prince Camillo Borghese. It was commissioned by Camillo, her second husband and executed in Rome from 1805-1808, after her marriage into the Borghese family in 1803. It was moved to the Galleria Borghese in Rome circa 1838 where it still resides. Canova was renowned for his neoclassical sculpture which skillfully intertwined antique influences with modern artistic ideals, in this case representing the famed Roman Princess...

a very beautiful sculpture of Aphrodite , in a natural white marble alabaster of Tuscany central Italy. This piece made after the originals Hellenistic sculptures of Aphrodite and after the Roman vision of Venus represent a very classical vision of the beauty and grace represent as from the classical tradition with the figure of the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. She was syncretized with the Roman goddess Venus. In the art, there are a lot of representation of Aphrodite and Venus, with sculpture and paintings as for example the birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and also was represented in the sculpture by the most famous artist as Prassitele Canova, Thorvaldsen etc. The marble alabaster is a typically natural stone carved...

‘Tick Tock’  is a beautiful bronze on alabaster base figurative sculpture by the artist Alison Bell. The sculpture dimensions are as follows: H 46 cm x W 16 ...

A 19th century Italian finely carved alabaster marble figure of Apollino, after the Antique . Figure standing and leaning against a tree trunk on square base . Ancient restorations.