Academic Sculptures

Renzo Colombo 1856-1885 Italian Bust of Napoleon Signed “R. Colombo 1885” (base) Bronze This rare and outstanding bronze sculpture of Napoleon was forged by famed Italian sculpto...

Signed Pietro Bazzanti Marble, depicting the famous wrestlers after the Antique Gorgeous Smooth Clean White Marble with Excellent Carving by Bazzanti Pietro Bazzanti specialized in...

A Monumental, Striking and "Academic" Patinated Bronze Figure of Two Athletic Male Nude Erotic Lovers Holding Hands by Adolf Jahn Two fighting men is from the work "Der Kampf" by Adolf Jahn Circa 1920 Signed on base by artist "Jahn" A plaster version of this model was exhibited in Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1918. Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1918, 14.Sep. to November 17, 1918 in the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin W. Pariser Platz 4 Publisher: The Otto Elsner Akt. Ges., Berlin Jahn, Adolf, Schöneberg 166 (The fight) , plaster. Of monumental size and superb quality casting, this academic-erotic bronze is one of a kind. We have not seen another one in all our years. We have sold many sculptures of single male nude figures. Having a monumental sculpture like the one presented here, with two male nude...

Grand in subject, scale and execution, this remarkable marble bust of Napoleon depicts the military and political leader in both life and death, as half his face is crafted to reveal...

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 ...

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...

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...

Figurative plaster sculpture of a posing male athlete by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to the fashion photographer, B...

Figurative plaster sculpture of a posing male athlete with ball by Mark Beard as Bruce Sargeant (pseudonym in homage to the fashion photographer, Bruce Weber, and figurative painter, John Singer Sargent...

The winged figure of Psyche is the subject of this exquisite marble by the great French Salon sculptor Alfred Boucher. Entitled L'Hirondelle Blessée, Boucher exhibited the work at th...

A marvelous bronze picturing the allegory of Jupiter and Hebe, a favorite theme in sculpture during the 19th century. Conceived of in 1886 and originally executed in marble, Coulon l...

This remarkable bronze figure is distinguished by its extraordinary execution and exceptional level of detail. A popular 19th-century subject for both American and European sculptors...