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Material: Breccia Marble
Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Hunting Putti Sculptures Statues Marble 1850
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine pair of Italian Grand Tour putti bronze statues on Breccia marble bases, circa 1850.
One of the nicest pairs of antique Grand Tour bronze putti we have had in a while, th...
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1850s Italian Grand Tour Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Bronze
19th Century Bronze and ormolu cherub pushing a sleigh.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An enchanting 19th Century patinated bronze and gilded ormolu cherub pushing a sleigh with a butterfly mounted on the front, set on a rouge marble plinth.
Signed; S. Kinsburer.
Batc...
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Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Bronze
Antique Patinated French Grand Tour Classical Bearded Male Figure Bronze Marble
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Well Cast Dark Patinated Bronze Grand Tour Figure Modelled as a Standing Robed and Bearded Male, supporting a knapsack across his right shoulder. Last half of the ...
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19th Century French Early Victorian Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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19th Century Art Nouveau Bronze Entitled "Venus & Cupid" by Jean Sul-Abadie
By Jean Abadie
Located in London, GB
A very fine bronze study of Venus taking an arrow from Cupid her son, who at times would shoot his arrows without meaning or reason into the hearts of men, igniting their desire. Exhibiting excellent rich brown patina and good detail, signed Sul Abadie and stamped.
Additional information
Height: 93 cm
Condition: excellent condition
Circa: 1885
Materials: bronze & marble
SKU: 4979
ABOUT
Jean Sul-Abadie
Jean Sul-Abadie (Born 1850 ~ Died 15th April 1890) was a French artist, a pupil of Jouffroy and Falguière. Specialising in bronze sculpting in the Art Nouveau style. He made his Salon debut in 1872.
Cupid & Venus
Different tales exist about the origin of Venus and Cupid. Some say that Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, had a love affair with Mars, the god of war. Out of this relationship, Cupid was born. In the following painting you see Venus with Mars, who is being disarmed by Cupid.
Cupid has attributes from both of his parents. Like his mother he is considered to be the god of love, or more precisely, the god of falling in love. He is portrayed as an innocent little child with bow and arrows. He shoots arrows to the heart, and awakening a love that you’re powerless to resist.
In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupido, meaning “desire”) is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the war god Mars, and is known in Latin also as Amor (“Love”). His Greek counterpart is Eros.
Although Eros is in Classical Greek art as a slender winged youth, during the Hellenistic period, he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that represent his source of power: a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid’s arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire. In myths, Cupid is a minor character who serves mostly to set the plot in motion. He is a main character only in the tale of Cupid and Psyche, when wounded by his own weapons he experiences the ordeal of love. Although other extended stories are not told about him, his tradition is rich in poetic themes and visual scenarios, such as “Love conquers all” and the retaliatory punishment or torture of Cupid.
In art, Cupid often appears in multiples as the Amores, or amoriniin the later terminology of art history, the equivalent of the Greek erotes. Cupids are a frequent motif of both Roman art and later Western art of the classical tradition. In the 15th century, the iconography of Cupid starts to become indistinguishable from the putto.
Cupid continued to be a popular figure in the Middle Ages, when under Christian influence he often had a dual nature as Heavenly and Earthly love. In the Renaissance, a renewed interest in classical philosophy endowed him with complex allegorical meanings. In contemporary popular culture, Cupid is shown drawing his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of Valentine’s Day.
Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity, victory, and desire. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Bronze
Marble and Broze Artemisa Sculture, Signed Pugi, Italy, circa 1870
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Marble and broze Artemisa sculture, signed Pugi, Italy, circa 1870.
Statuary, Breccia and Siena marble and bronze.
By Guglielmo Pugi (1850-1915)
With breccia marble pedestal.
Scul...
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Late 19th Century Italian Belle Époque Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Siena Marble, Statuary Marble, Bronze
Gilt Bronze and Marble Sculpture Signed Affortunato Gory, Louis XV Style
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Gilt bronze and marble sculpture signed Affortunato Gory. Louis XV style. France, circa 1920.
Carrara and Breccia marble.
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1920s French Louis XV Vintage Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Carrara and Breccia Marble Sculpture, Signed L.C. Firenze, Italy, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara and Breccia marble sculpture, signed L.C. Firenze, Italy, circa 1890.
Signed "Scelta dum fiore" in the front.
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1890s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Large, Important Pair of 19th Century Bronze and Ormolu Candelabra
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A large and important fine quality pair of 19th century gilded ormolu and bronze candelabra, each with scrolling foliate six branch sconces, supported by cornucopia held by a pair of semi clad opposing putti. Raised on gilded ormolu egg...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
"Poésie" a 19th Century French Polychromed Symbolist Marble Sculpture
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
"Poésie" a 19th century French Polychromed Symbolist marble sculpture
A Carrare, Sienna and very rare Skyros Marbles Symbolist Sculpture Group.
Figuring Poetry under the appearance of Dante and Béatrice resting on a rock, Dante holding in his hand a parchment titled "Poetry".
It rests on a Neo-Renaissance moulded and hand-carved walnut rotating sellette, the barrel consists of three fluted Corinthian columns, decorated with foliage at the base, resting on a truncated column decorated with female masks connected by a drape. It’s joined, in the upper part, by arcatures with a background of foliated foliage and masks of women crowned alternately with cutout RT monogram. Moulded triangular base, with curved sides and rising from lobed angles with a frieze of oves at the base.
Circa 1870
Measures: Sculpture: H. 75 CM • 29 1/2 IN.
Sellette: H. 112 CM W. 44 CM - D. 49 CM
H 44 1/8 IN. W 17 3/8 IN. D 19 1/4 IN.
The poetry of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Beatrice Portinari, simply known as Beatrice or Beatrix, commonly refers to the muse of Dante Alighieri, whom he glorifies and loves. But she is also a woman whom, if one follows the New Life, Dante loved from his childhood, and to whom he dedicated a place in all his works.
More sensitive than all is the resolute amplification which, after the pathetic force and expressionist intensity of Hell, intensifies with the more elegiac and penetrating emotion of Purgatory and leads to the miraculous triumph of the imaginary in Paradise. Of the three «hymns», it is Hell which is the most known, the most popular one can say: the taste of the picturesque, spread by the romantic criticism, is much to it. Dante, however, had the conviction, repeatedly affirmed in his poem, that by rising from one kingdom to another, he raised his poetry each time by a level which made it worthy of an ever more «high» matter. At a distance of six and a half centuries, there is certainly no obligation to share this view, however assured it may be for the poet. Anyone, however, who wants to enter the world of the Comedy must refuse the scale, eliminatory in its consequences of fact, which puts such a section above the other or brings the Comedy to a rosary of episodes more or less «beautiful»
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
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1870s French Renaissance Revival Antique Breccia Marble Figurative Sculptures
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Breccia Marble, Carrara Marble, Siena Marble
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