Zouave au Repos, Monumental Sculpture

Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his sculptures practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of t...

Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...

While Thierry Despont (1948 - 2023) was best-known for his architectural practice—for his integral role in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, his re-imagining of the Ritz in P...

Thierry Despont was best-known for his very successful architectural practice—but he was also an accomplished artist. Some of his most interesting works are a series of sculptures fa...

An interesting 19th-century patinated metal sculpture depicting an Algerian Zouave soldier in combat posture, belonging to the famous colonial units that formed part of the French ar...

Scipione Tadolini was a skilled sculptor whose broad talent covered the neoclassic to the romantic movements. His ancestors from a dynasty of Roman sculptors exerted a profound and lasting influence on the artistic production of the Eternal City. The Greek Slave fully demonstrates his masterly talent and serves as a reminder of antique models and the orientalist influences characterising the second half of the 19th century. Scipione Tadolini graduated from the Roman Academy and worked with his father on a series of celebrated portraits and ecclesiastical sculptures for Roman churches including a bust of Cardinal Giuseppe Alberghini for the Gesù (1847) and portraits of various members of the Cini family for the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle (1844, 1846). Tadolini is also known as the author of a number of large-scale monuments for patrons around the world including an equestrian group of Simon Bolivar for the city of Lima, Peru. One of his best known sculptures is The Greek Slave which appears in his work from the late 1850s forward.The Greek Slave was created in several sizes in two variations: with the figure’s hand either raised to her chest or to her chin. The small number of versions all indicate the sculptor’s careful attention to the human form and passion with exoticism, which can be noticed through the tumbling folds of the present figure's headdress and the finely articulated jewellery...

ROMAN BRONZE MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE 120 CM LARGE BRONZE SCULPTURE REPRESENTING A ROMAN SOLDIER. IT HAS A NICE BROWN AND GREEN PATINA. IT MEASURES 120X80X40 CM. Roman work from the earl...

Louis Burton, Plaster Sculpture Signed and Dated 44, Accidents and Losses