20th Century Child with Hat Sculpture Bronze by Tommaso Campajola

19th Century. Cesare Beccaria Bronze, 49 x 13 x 15 cm The bronze statue examined faithfully reproduces the famous Milanese monument by Giuseppe Grandi (1843-1894) dedicated to Cesare Beccaria. The work, from the top of a high base in white Montorfano granite, dominates the homonymous Milanese square, a sad stage for executions at the time of Austrian rule, in a bronze copy of 1914 to replace the original stone statue which already at the beginning of the new century showed serious signs of deterioration. The marble became part of the collections of the Gallery of Modern Art and is now located inside the Palazzo di Giustizia in Milan. The initiative regarding the erection of a monument dedicated to Cesare Beccaria originates in 1865, in support of the proposed abolition of the death penalty...

Nineteenth century Young woman portrait Measures: Plaster, 50 x 40 x H 40 cm Dated 10 - 1 - MCMI The emergence of a "disheveled manner" in sculpture is affirmed since the 1880s with Giuseppe Grandi, author of the Monument to the Five Days of Milan, Ernesto Bazzaro, Paolo Troubetzkoy...

18th Century Sant’Antonio Abate Wood, cm alt. 61 Base 25 x 17.5 cm This wooden sculpture depicts Sant’Antoni Abate. Antonio was born in Come i...

18th century Immaculate Madonna Terracotta, 53 x 22 x 20 cm The work examined depicts the Virgin Mary treated according to the iconography of the Immaculate Virgin The theme of the Immaculate Conception began to appear in artistic works ever since the debate began, which saw the Franciscans and the ramifications of the Benedictine Order lined up on one side, linked to the thought of Anselmo d'Aosta and Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, and on the other the Dominicans, linked to the discussion offered by Thomas Aquinas...

Beautiful antique sculpture by the austrian sculptor and portrait painter Karl Hackstock (*1855 in Fehring - 1919 in Vienna). Karl Hackstock studied...

Artist’s Model Bust of a Young Girl in a Panama Hat, not signed This is a very attractive hand made piece dating from the middle of the 20th Century...

Belle Époque french bronze sculpture of a boy with overall and a hat by Louis Kley By: Louis Kley Material: bronze, copper, metal Technique: cast, patinated, molded, metalwork Dimen...

Josép Cardona i Furró bronze sculpture of a boy. Spain, late 19th Century / early 20th century. This is a bronze sculpture of a boy, made by famous Spanish sculptor Josép Cardona i Furró (1878-1922). Cardona was a good friend of Pablo Picasso and also shared a studio with him. He is part of the second generation of Spanish modernist sculptors. He worked mainly in Spain, but also did work in Paris - which might explain the French inscription on this very sculpture. A joyful and delicate work, which shows a boy standing...