Houston - Nude Sculptures

Modern abstract figurative sculpture of a nude woman by the artist James Kearns. The work features a reclining female figure with long flowing hair relaxing and eating grapes. Signed...

Figurative bronze gold statue of a nude male with its left foot forward by Italian artist Max Forti. The work is signed and dated on the thigh area. Artist ...

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...

Beautiful nude male torso sculpture made in the classical Greco Roman style. The sculpture was created by W. R. Stevenson and consists of a p...

Beautifully sculpted light grey terracotta clay nude female torso. The surface has a rough texture which juxtaposes nicely against the clean lines of the figure.

Bronze sculpture that depicts a male angel seated on a square base. The nude figure is elaborately depicted with a pair of wings on his back and a cigar in ...

Beautiful classical bronze male torso sculpture with a lovely natural patina from the mid 20th century.

Bronze sculpture of a nude female form that appears to be rising out of the base created by Fabian Galdamez an Argentinian artist from the late 20th centur...

Beautiful classical bronze male torso sculpture with a lovely natural patina from the mid 20th century.

Wonderful 20th Century Bronze African Sculpture of a warrior on a donkey from Foumban in Cameroon.