Statues/Sculptures You Like/Love

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Damien Evans in an avatar thread received several complements on the statue of the Dying GaulWP.

I don't think we have had a statue/sculpture thread so It's about time we did.

Please post your favourite statue or sculpture and feel free to wax lyrical on why you like it so much.

We''ll start with the one that prompted this thread:



Rather good hi-res pictures are available HERE and HERE.


Have fun.

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H3LL said:
Damien Evans in an avatar thread received several complements on the statue of the Dying GaulWP.
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The Dying Gaul is wonderful - at lot of pathos in that work. For some reason, I've always been partial to these little ladies that guard King Tut's tomb:
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It seems, supercorgi, that this thread idea is not as golden as your, rather excellent, choice. :o


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I am rubbish at posting pictures and spelling but my favorite is Queen Nefertiti's bust.I also love King Tut's death mask.
The thinker is one of my favourites too.
 
When I went to Rome, I saw so many amazing works of art. I was blown away by the tomb of Pope Alexander VII, by Gianlorenzo Bernini in St. Peter's Basilica.

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It's creepy and beautiful at the same time. The red marble drapery really has the feeling of fabric and the bronze skeleton is just cool.
 
That's a really interesting one Gilmar...

I like this one quite a bit:
(Sphinx Mysterieux by Charles van der Stappen)
 

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supercorgi said:
When I went to Rome, I saw so many amazing works of art. I was blown away by the tomb of Pope Alexander VII, by Gianlorenzo Bernini in St. Peter's Basilica.

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It's creepy and beautiful at the same time. The red marble drapery really has the feeling of fabric and the bronze skeleton is just cool.
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I LOVE the skeleton :)

Another, cute one :) by Bernini.

 
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There really are too many wonderful pieces of art to decide on just one favorite, I think :) Here's a few that I like:



Daedelus Fastening Icarus Wings by Antonio Canova - 1757-1822 - Italy



Ganymede Offering a Cup to Zeus as an Eagle by Bertel Thorvaldsen - 1770-1844 - Denmark

I like this one in spite of the smurf hat ;)



Cupid With Butterfly by Antoine-Denis Chaudet - 1763-1810 - France



Mecury Inventing the Caduceus by Jean-Antoine-Marie (Antonin) Idrac - 1849-1884 - France

How can you not love a statue that shows a cute guy in that position :p



Icarus by Paul-Ambroise Slodtz - 1702-1758 - France
 
Some more modern statues:



Artist unknown to me.



Artist unknown to me.

This one is just so absurd :)



Mercury's Foot by Tomas Qvarsebo - Sweden

Contemporary art - classical motif.
 
And last I just find this anatomical study of a statue beautiful and interesting:



Boy With Thorn, or Fedelino, or Spinario. Greco-Roman Hellenistic Bronze.



Turin, 1837-39. Lithograph. National Library of Medicine

Francesco Bertinatti
(fl. mid-1800s)
[anatomist]

Mecco Leone
[artist]

The anatomical studies for real, imaginary and prospective sculptures
and paintings became a genre in its own right in the early and middle
decades of the 19th century.
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OK, I got a bit carried away... :blush: I am going away now :o
 
I have dabbled with small-scale sculpture, both with polymer clay and paper. I turned out some rather nice 3-dimensional paper items, (sorry, no pics) but the work is extremely tedious and time-consuming. Not exactly profitable...

Anyway, I also annually purchase a copy of Spectrum, the yearly sci-fi and fantasy art collection/competition. They always feature a 3-D section, with some stunning genre stuff. Check out any of the 12 existing yearly issues for an idea.
One that sticks in my memory was a work I saw at a "political" art show at my university art gallery.
This was a bronze by sculptor/singer/songwriter Terry Allen.
Just a bust of an ordinary-looking guy, with the entire face portion detatched and falling away, and a baseball bat fetched up against the back of the head.
The title...."The All-American Pastime".

I said it was political.....
 
I saw thousands of images of sculpture and paintings last summer when I had an uncanny obsession with mythology. I spent entire days at the library looking at images from all the different art and mythology websites.

This one isn't related to mythology but I like it.

A Florentine Singer of the Fifteenth Century (depicted in doublet and hose playing a lute), one of the most popular statuettes in Europe, was shown in 1865.


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A Florentine Singer, Paul Dubois (1829-1905), Musée d'Orsay

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A Florentine Singer (detail)



http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=florentine singer&w=95229107@N00

There are more pictures here with several views of the sculpture:

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Hardenbergh said:
A Florentine Singer of the Fifteenth Century (depicted in doublet and hose playing a lute), one of the most popular statuettes in Europe, was shown in 1865.
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That one's lovely! I like the cod piece :)

mumchup said:
I like this one quite a bit:
(Sphinx Mysterieux by Charles van der Stappen)
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This one's gorgeous. I hadn't heard of that artist before, thanks for showing it. I'll check him out.
 
ImaginalDisc said:
You Win!
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Argh...I weren't stuck in traffic I would have won instead.

The Gates of Hell are at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. I used to be within a 5 minute walk. Great place. They have one of the "Thinkers" there.

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The Burghers of Calais is also there (Though the one below is not the one in Philadelphia)


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