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Material: Carrara Marble
18th-19th Century Neoclassical Multi-Marble Bust of Roman Emperor Titus Domitian
Located in New York, NY
A striking late 18th-early 19th century bust of the Roman Emperor Titus Domitian. The head is made from hand carved white Carrara marble, the tunic and t...
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Late 18th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Breccia Marble, Carrara Marble
Large Carrara Marble Group of Virgin, Child and the Baptist Signed P. Romanelli
Located in London, GB
Large Carrara marble group of Virgin, Child and The Baptist signed P. Romanelli
Italian, 19th century
Measures: Figure: height, 170cm, width 70cm, depth 40cm
Base: height 93.5cm, width 59.5cm, depth 43cm
Executed in stunning Carrara marble, this exceptional sculpture is signed for the Florentine artist Pasquale Romanelli...
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Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
An Italian 19th C. Marble Sculpture of "Flora's Embrace", By Professore F. Galli
Located in New York, NY
A Monumental Italian 19th Century Marble Sculpture of "Flora's Embrace", By Professore F. Galli. Flora's Embrace, an exquisite marble sculpture by the esteemed Professore Fortunato G...
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1890s Italian Belle Époque Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Fantastic Italian Sculpture "Skull" Beginning 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Fantastic Italian Sculpture "Skull" beginning 20th century.
Marble "Giallo di Siena"
Measures: H: 33cm x 43cm
very good condition.
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Early 20th Century Italian Modern Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Marble Statue
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
A large (almost life-sized) antique Carrara marble statue of a Roman legionary. Dressed in typical Roman soldier costume and with sword and shield in ...
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Early 20th Century Italian Classical Roman Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
$48,757
Carrara Marble Sculpture Copy of Venus de Milo by French Sculptor, circa 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Venus de Milo is an original Carrara marble sculpture realized in 1820 by French sculptor manufacture.
The beautiful sculpture represents a copy of the famous Venus De Milo, the a...
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1820s French Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
French Mid-19th Century White Carrara Marble Statue
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and monumentally scaled French mid 19th century white Carrara marble statue. The most impressive and statement making statue ...
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19th Century French Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian Marble Statue of ' Crouching Venus', late C20th
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality early 20th Century Carrera marble statue of ' Crouching Venus'.
Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath, also k...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Classical Greek Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Postmodern Carrara Marble Hands Sculpture by Eric Theret, France, 1990s.
Located in Lille, FR
Postmodern Carrara Marble Hands Sculpture "Jeux de mains" by Eric Theret, France, 1990s.
Category
1990s French Modern Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Metal
Italian turn of the century white Carrara marble statue of Michelangelo's David.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and high quality Italian turn of the century white Carrara marble statue of Michelangelo's David. This iconic and world renowned statue is supported on a square mottled...
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20th Century Italian Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
A 19th century marble bust of Corneille van Clève
Located in Wijnegem, BE
Marble bust of Corneille Van Cleve by Jean-Jacques Caffieri, France, 19th century.
Category
1850s French Louis XIV Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Shell Natural Specimen White and Marble Pedestal Victorian Style 20th Century
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
Beautiful and elegant shell on pure white marble pedestal
It has an ornament of a bronze bird, but you can remove it if you don't like it and leave the shell alone.
Its condition i...
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Early 20th Century Spanish Other Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass
Spiderman Bust Sculpture in Carrara Marble
Located in Tivoli Terme, Roma
The sculpture was made from a single block of Carrara statuary marble, one of a kind piece.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Statue in Alabaster and Marble Representing Helen and Paris, 20th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Statue in alabaster and marble representing an embracing couple, probably Helen and Paris. In order to create a contrast, the bodies of the figures...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Carrara Marble
Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed A. Batacchi, Italy, Florence, Late 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara marble sculpture signed A. Batacchi, Italy, Florence, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
"Giuditta" by Ezio Ceccarelli, Italy, Circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Great female statue of Judith in bronze with brown patina and white marble from Carrara. This young woman holds in her hands, stretched over his head, a scimitar in its scabbard, ready to draw it. The weapon is fitted with a hilt decorated by a stylized lion on the top of the sword guard...
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Early 1900s Italian Beaux Arts Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Carrara White Marble Bust of Marie Antoinette
By Félix Lecomte
Located in London, GB
Bust of 'Marie Antoinette'
After the original by Felix Lecomte
Constructed in Carrara statuary marble, the bust of the Queen is set on a truncated ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large Carrara Marble Sculpture by Armando Rosato, Signed, 1977
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
**Title:** Large Carrara Marble Sculpture by Armando Rosato, Signed, 1977
**Description:**
A stunning Carrara marble sculpture by renowned artist Armando Rosato, signed and date...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Marble bust by Guglielmo Pugi (1850-1915)
Located in Wijnegem, BE
A youthful, idealized Neoclassical marble bust, possibly an allegorical figure like Cupid, or a putto (cherub).
Italy, C.1890-1910.
Guglielmo Pugi (1850-1915) was a renowned Italia...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Set of Fratelli Mannelli Italian White Carrara Marble Animals Sculptures, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing and rare set of three Carrara white marble sculptures. Fratelli Mannelli designed this fantastic set in Italy during the 1970s.
There are three elements in this set: an elephant, a giraffe and a camel. This set is extremely rare because of the material. For this set high-quality white Carrara marble was used, while normally, the Mannelli sculptures were made in travertine marble.
A wonderful set of sculptures...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
high quality true pair of Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statues
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely and high quality true pair of Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statues, signed Cesare Lapini. Each wonderful statue is raised on a circular ground designed base where each of the charming young girls above are standing. Showcased on the front of each statue's base are the titles, with the left statue titled "Estate" and the right "Inverno". The young maidens each represent their respective season, with Estate being Summer and Inverno being Winter. The adorable young girl in her summer attire is adorned with formal heels on her feet while grasping a small bouquet of blooming flowers, and wearing a cute bonnet accented with a smaller scale flower bouquet on the side. The young girl dressed in her winter attire is bundled in a woven hooded sash over her dress and holding a tastefully braided basket. Surrounding the feet of the winter dressed...
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19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century Continental Female Bust Sculpture in White Marble
Located in New York, NY
Fine antique (19th century) continental bust of a lovely female in curls and dress adorned with bows at the shoulder. Apparently unsigned.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Marble Sculpture by Vichi, 'Exotic Dancer', for 1914, French Salon
Located in London, GB
This astonishing early 20th century Orientalist sculpture is one of the finest of its kind, full of movement, sensuality and effortless charm. The work of celebrated Italian sculptor...
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1910s Italian Romantic Vintage Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian 19th Century White Carrara Marble Bust of a Young Maiden
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely and high quality Italian 19th century white Carrara marble bust of a young maiden, signed R. Batelli. The wonderfully charming statue depicts a young maiden wearing a finely...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
white Carrara marble satyr sculpture -made in Italy
Located in Tarquinia, IT
Satyr sculpture, satyr bust, satyr with grapes, marble satyr
Satyr's head with grapes carved on beautiful white Carrara marble,
Resting on a turned base of white Carrara marble
The...
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2010s Italian Greco Roman Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical St. Carrara Marble Bust of Juliette Recamier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and wonderfully executed Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. white Carrara marble bust of young Madame Juliette Recamier. The bust is raised by a square base below the...
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19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Continental 19th Century White Carrara Marble Statue of Venus
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful Continental 19th century white Carrara marble statue of Venus after a model by Bertel Thorvaldsen. The striking statue is raised by a circular base where Venus stands nex...
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Pietro Bazzanti, Italian 19th Carved Marble Figure Semi-Nude Young Bather Girl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pietro Bazzanti - Barzanti (Italian, 1825-1895) "After the Bath" - a very Fine and large carved white Carrara marble figure of a semi-nude young maiden standing by the sea-shore. The smiling and posing young beauty, with bare breasts and back, her right arm juxtaposed over her head, while holding a blanket over her waist with her left hand and standing barefoot by a rocky seawall and wavy shoreline. Signed 'P. Barzanti/Florence' (on reverse) and raised on a cylindrical swiveling carved verde antico solid marble pedestal. circa: Florence, 1880-1890.
Pietro Bazzanti or Barzanti (Italian, 1825-1895) was a 19th Century Italian sculptor born in Florence. Together with his brother, Niccolò Bazzanti (Firenze, 1802-1869) who was also a sculptor, they both worked the sprawling Florentine studio 'Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio' a hugely successful sculpture studio, operated within the family at their gallery on Lungarno Corsini until the mid-twentieth century. The studio was a place where many talented professors and apprentice sculptors specialized in sculpting marble...
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Late 19th Century Italian Greco Roman Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
$198,750 Sale Price
27% Off
Diana Gabii, sculpture carved on white Carrara marble, made in Italy
Located in Tarquinia, IT
Sculpture of the Diana "Gabii," hand carved on beautiful white Carrara marble.
Made n Italy
The total weight is 23 kg
The sculpture has an "antiqued" treatment, even with special pa...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Classical Roman Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
" Venus of the Nile " 19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture
Located in Madrid, ES
" Venus of the Nile "
19th century Italian Carrara marble sculpture
Italy
Height: 90 cm
good conditions.
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Geometric Italian Organic Carrara Marble Sculpture or Bookend
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Unique Italian Marble Sculpture that can stand alone as a piece of art - perfect for any shelf, cocktail table, guest room, also perhaps the kitchen.
The piece is a companion to a...
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20th Century Italian Organic Modern Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Very Fine French 19th Century White Marble Bust of a Young Beauty by René Rozet
By René Rozet 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and large French 19th century white marble bust of a young beauty, purported to be a young "Marie Antoinette" (Queen of France 1755-1793), by René Rozet...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Siena Marble
$59,850 Sale Price
29% Off
Requiem Carrara Marble Sculpture by Jan Keustermans
Located in Vlimmeren, BE
This abstract sculpture in Carrara marble was sculpted ‘en taille directe’ by the Belgian artist Jan Keustermans. He named it Requiem.
The large sculpture is signed and dated, Jake 2001. It is a unique piece.
It is the first time that Jan Keustermans and his family offer a selection of sculptures, directly from the artist’s atelier.
Jan Alfons Keustermans (°1940) is a Belgian sculptor, medalist and draftsman. He studied at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp and until 2000 he was director of the Municipal Academy of Fine Arts in Turnhout.
He has won several art prizes for sculpture and participated in group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.
He has created more than 850 works. In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.
Keustermans’ work evolved from figurative to completely abstract. He describes the abstract works as ‘memorial stones...
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Early 2000s Belgian Modern Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century Italian Classical Marble Bust of Venus Chiurazzi
Located in New York, NY
Psyche of Capua. White marble bust of Venus, after antique.
Italy, late 19th century.
Inscribed, 'Chiurazzi.'
Measures: 21 in. (53.3 cm) height.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Classical Greek Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed "Loreley" by Hippolyte Moreau, France, 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara marble sculpture signed "Loreley" by Hippolyte Moreau, France, circa 1890.
Art Nouveau period.
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Early 1900 Fine Hand Crafted Marble Wall Plaque with Sculpture of Grieving Angel
Located in Lisse, NL
Hand-carved kneeling angel in relief. Marked/Signed picture 4.
This mourning angel by a grave is entirely hand-carved out of marble. This early 20th century Christian work of art ca...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian Marble Statue Sculpture by Romanelli
Located in New York, NY
Finely carved Italian Carrara marble
Title: Amore E Psiche
Artist: Pasquale Romanelli (1812-1887)
Origin: Italian
Date: 19th century
Signature: Signed Prof. P. Romanelli/Fire...
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19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Beautiful Italian " Torso " 20th Century Carrara Marble
Located in Madrid, ES
Beautiful Italian " Torso " 20th century Carrara marble.
Measure: H: 47m including base, 30cm without
very good condition
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20th Century Italian Baroque Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Magnificent "Dorso Masculino" Sculpture in Carrara Marble the, Late 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Magnificent "Dorso Masculino" sculpture in Carrara marble from the late 19th century.
Italy
Measures: H. 108cm x 37cm
Perfect conditions.
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Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Antique Italian Neoclassical Carrara Marble Bust of Daphne, Apollo's First Love
Located in New York, NY
A fabulously hand carved antique neoclassical style Italian Carrara marble bust of Daphne. This bust is of immaculate quality and craftsmanship. Daphne's hair is beautifully hand car...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Antique 19th Century Carrara Marble Statue, "Venus D' Medici" by Antonio Frilli
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th Century Italian carrara marble statue, "Venus D'Medici" By Antonio Frilli (1860-1920).
Height with pedestal: 86 inches
Height of statue alone: 64 inches (Pedestal is 2...
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19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large Carrara Marble Sculpture by Jan Keustermans
Located in Vlimmeren, BE
This abstract sculpture in Carrara marble was sculpted ‘en taille directe’ by the Belgian artist Jan Keustermans.
The sculpture is signed Jake. It is a unique piece.
It is the first time that Jan Keustermans and his family offer a selection of sculptures, directly from the artist’s atelier.
Jan Alfons Keustermans (°1940) is a Belgian sculptor, medalist and draftsman. He studied at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp and until 2000 he was director of the Municipal Academy of Fine Arts in Turnhout.
He has won several art prizes for sculpture and participated in group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.
He has created more than 850 works. In 1994, he won the Ministry of Finance’s competition for a portrait of King Albert II on the Belgian currency. In 1997 he designed a similar version for the euro coin.
Keustermans’ work evolved from figurative to completely abstract. He describes the abstract works as ‘memorial...
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Early 2000s Belgian Modern Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Art Nouveau Bronze Femme Écrivant by Julien Causse
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
ART NOUVEAU BRONZE BY JULIEN CAUSSE
A stunning sculpture that embodies the elegance of the Art Nouveau period—an exquisite representation of a woman thoughtfully inscribing the date...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Charming Italian 19th Century Carved Marble Group "Playful Putti with Goat"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and charming Italian 19th century carved Carrara Marble Group "Playful Putti with Goat" depicting two young children, one riding the goat whose two front legs are in the ...
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19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
$29,850 Sale Price
39% Off
19th Century Italian Socrates Mask - Carrara, Rosso Verona Marble Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A late 19th Century, antique Italian mask of Socrates, the Classical Greek philosopher 470-399 BC. Hand carved in white Carrara marble and mounted on a Rosso Verona marble base, in g...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian 17th Century Louis XIV Period White Carrara Marble Statue
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A magnificent Italian 17th century Louis XIV period, circa 1680 white carrara marble statue of a man and his dog. The striking statue, carved out of one solid marble block, is raised on a rectangular base. The extremely well sculpted statue...
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17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
French 19th Century Carrara Marble Sculpture Portrait of Woman, Signed LeBrun
By Le Brun
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful marble statue, a portrait of a young woman, cut from Carrara marble. The statue has a beautiful artistic look. The woman's refined, serene face contrasts beautifully with t...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
$2,689 Sale Price
20% Off
Pietro Bazzanti 19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Bust of Roman Woman
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Pietro Bazzanti 19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Bust of Roman Woman
Dimensions : 31" Tall X 24" Wide X 10" Deep
This gorgeous marble bust was made by Pietro Bazzanti (1842-1881...
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Late 19th Century Italian Classical Roman Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed Comana
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed Comana.
This beautifully executed Italian Carrara marble sculpture is mounted on a green marble plinth.
Gorgeous!
Category
1920s Italian Neoclassical Vintage Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Carrera Marble Double Column Abstract Sculpture, 1980s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Carrara marble double column abstract sculpture. Carved abstract detail and geometric forms. Columns slide onto rods on a marble base. Unknown artist. Signed B. 88.
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1980s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Beautiful Italian " Torso " 20th Century Carrara Marble
Located in Madrid, ES
Beautiful Italian " Torso " 20th century Carrara marble.
Measure: H: 43m including base
very good condition
Category
20th Century Italian Baroque Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Carrara Marble Sculpture by Antonio Frilli, Firenze, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara marble sculpture by Antonio Frilli, Firenze, circa 1890.
Category
1890s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Classical male torso carved on white Carrara marble -made in Italy
By Lorenzo Todini
Located in Tarquinia, IT
Sculpture, Male torso, classical art, Greek art, Torso, white Carrara marble, classical sculpture, ancient torso, Greek torso, statuary marble sculpture.
Male torso carved on statuar...
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1990s Classical Roman Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Horse Head - Antique Décor Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A late 19th Century, antique Italian horse head sculpture with harness and mane in a classic style. This statuette was carved by hand in Carrara Marble. It has its’ original antique ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Limestone, Carrara Marble
18th-19th Century White Italian Carrara Marble Satyr Mask, Antique Décor
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A hand carved late 18th/19th Century mythological marble Satyr mask with horns, weathered patina in good condition. The hand sculpted Italian Carrara marb...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian 19th Century Carrara Marble Statue of Mother and Child, Signed Franchi
By P. Franchi
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and well executed Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue of a mother breast feeding her child, signed P. Franchi, 1860. The statue ...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
18th Century Large Italian Marble Bust of Caesar Augustus
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century Italian Marble Bust of Caesar Augustus. His draped robe is hand-carved in red rosso levanto marble with the face modelled in contrasting white Carrara marble. The piece ...
Category
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
Italian 19th Century White Carrara Marble Statue Theseus and the Minotaur
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue of Theseus and the Minotaur. The statue is raised on an oval base with the Minotaur lying in defeat as Theseus is poised to strike the monster. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur has many renditions, one of them is the following:
King Minos of Crete had conquered the Athenians and demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull that dwelt in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus. Theseus, son of King Aegeus of Athens, volunteered to go and try to stop this horror. On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread so he could find his way out of the Labyrinth. Theseus tied one end of the ball...
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19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Italian 19th century Carrara statue of a fisher maiden, by Pietro Bazzanti
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and extremely well executed Italian mid 19th century white Carrara and Vert de Patricia marble statue of a young Neapolitan fisher maiden, signed by Pietro Bazzanti. This stunning statue is raised by a Vert de Patricia marble pedestal with a round socle on a square base supporting the column decorated with a gadrooned band at the bottom and a fluted band at the top. The statue is of a young Neapolitan fisher maiden is standing on a rocky outcrop, battered by waves lapping at her feet. She leans on a fishing pole held in one hand, while steadying herself with the other hand as she looks down into the water. She is wearing a short-sleeved striped frock with a fabric sash fashioned as a belt upon which is fastened a gourd at the back and a handkerchief tucked in at the front. She wears a lovely conical straw hat with flowers...
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19th Century Italian Antique Carrara Marble Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
Italian Ancient Marble Sculpture Fountain, Late 16th Century
Located in Milano, IT
Sea monster
Carrara marble mouth fountain
Italy, late 16th century
It measures 13.8 x 31.5 x 18.9 in (35 x 80 x 48 cm)
State of conservation: some small evident gaps and widespread signs of wear due to outdoor exposure. The gray marks crossing it do not come from restoration, but are rather the natural veins of the marble.
This work has some morphological characteristics typically associated with the iconography of the sea monster: an elongated muzzle, sharp teeth, protruding eyes, elongated ears, and a coiled serpent's tail.
An in-depth series of studies on artistic depictions of the sea monster attempted to verify how this symbol evolved in antiquity in the European and Mediterranean contexts and how it gradually changed its image and function over time. The iconography itself is mutable and imaginative and its history is rich with cultural and artistic exchange, as well as the overlapping of ideas. This occurred so much that it is difficult to accurately pinpoint the "types" that satisfactorily represent its various developments.
However, we can try to summarize the main figures, starting from the biblical Leviathan and the marine creature that swallowed Jonah (in the Christian version, this figure was to become a whale or a "big fish", the “ketos mega”, translation of the Hebrew “dag gadol”). Other specimens ranged from the dragons mentioned in the Iliad (which were winged and had legs) to "ketos” (also from Greek mythology), the terrifying being from whose Latinized name (“cetus”) derives the word "cetacean". See J. Boardman, “Very Like a Whale” - Classical Sea Monsters, in Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, in Papers presented in Honor of Edith Porada, Mainz am Rhein 1987, pp. 73-84).
In Italy the monster underwent yet further variations: it can be found in Etruscan art on the front of some sarcophagi representing the companion of souls, while among the Romans we find the “Pistrice” (cited by Plinio in Naturalis Historia PLIN., Nat., II 9, 8 and by Virgilio in Eneide: VERG., Aen., III, 427), which appeared in the shape of a stylized hippocampus or a very large monstrous cetacean and evolved into a hideous being with a dragon's head and long webbed fins.
During the Middle Ages, the sea monster was the object of new transformations: at this time, it is often winged, the head is stretched like a crocodile, the front legs are often very sharp fins - sometimes real paws - until the image merges with dragons, the typical figures of medieval visionary spirituality widely found throughout Europe (on this topic and much more, see: Baltrušaitis, J., Il Medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, Gli Adelphi 1997).
In Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, the revival of classicism - representative of the humanistic and Renaissance periods - led to a different reading of these "creatures". Indeed, the sea monster was also to find widespread use as an isolated decorative motif, especially in numerous fountains and sculptures where dolphins or sea monsters were used as a characterizing element linked to water (on this theme see: Chet Van Duzer, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, London, The British library, 2013).
From the morphological point of view, the "sea monsters" of this period are mostly depicted as hybrid figures, in which the body of a mythological or real being (a hippocampus, a sea snake, a dolphin), is joined to a head with a rather indistinct appearance. It was usually characterized by large upright ears, an elongated snout, sharp teeth and globular, protruding eyes; a complex and indefinite figure, both from the symbolic point of view and from that of its genesis.
The work we are examining is placed as a cross between the medieval sea serpent and the Renaissance dolphin, with stylistic features which recall the snake as often used in heraldry (such as the "snake" depicted in the coat of arms of the Visconti - the lords and then dukes of Milan between 1277 and 1447 - and which, for some, may be derived from the representations of the “Pistrice” that swallowed Jonah).
In the search for sources, Renaissance cartography and in particular woodcuts should not be neglected. See for example the monsters of Olaus Magnus, from the editions of the “Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus” (“History of the peoples of the north”) and the natural histories of Conrad Gesner, Ulisse...
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