A splashy comeback for artist John Edward Svenson’s sculpture
February 25, 2012
February 20, 2012
Happy Birthday Constantin Brancusi, born this day in 1876.
Here, a sampling of our vast Brancusi collection
Top row:
Bird in Space, 1924
Polished bronze; black marble base
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950Mademoiselle Pogany [I], 1912
White marble; limestone block
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Gift of Mrs. Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, 1933Bottom row:
White Negress [I], 1923
Veined marble; marble two-part base
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950The Kiss, 1916
Limestone
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
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February 17, 2012
Colegio San Gregorio. Museo Nacional de Escultura. Valladolid
Santo Entierro (hacia 1540)
Juan de Juni (1507-1577)
Madera policromada
Convento de San Francisco, Valladolid. Desamortización.
The famous preacher and writer Antonio de Guevara, director of Charles V, commissioned this work to his grave. The undulating rhythm of their moral antithesis and disappointment over your life that seem to translate into prose the tension developed Mannerist Juni: “My life is not live, but a long dying, my pleasures were pleasures, but a alegrones I bitter and I played, my youth was not young, but I dreamed a dream and I do not know what I saw. Finally, I say that my prosperitywas not prosperity, but a pen and treasure lure of alchemy ”(1539).
January 31, 2012
This picture is making the rounds in tumblr. Does anyone know who it is by, the date and other useful info?
January 15, 2012
this is probably Puget but I can’t figure out which work it is.
(Source: funeral-wreaths, via imbrogliorosso)
December 18, 2011
The muse Polyhymnia, by Philiscus of Rhodes, 3rd century B.C. In Greek mythology, the nine Muses were the patron-goddesses of the arts. They were believed to be the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, a Titan who personified memory. During the Hellenistic period, the island of Rhodes was the home of a highly developed school of sculpture founded by Lysippus, sculptor to the court of Alexander the Great. His school continued to flourish well into the period of the Roman Empire.
December 15, 2011
December 2, 2011
Reliquary bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch (1465–70) – attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert von Leyden
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November 27, 2011
Gerog Raphael Donner
The statue was commissioned by Primate Count Imre Esterházy, Archbishop of Esztergom for the new Baroque High Altar of the Pozsony (Bratislava) Cathedral which was erected instead of the old Gothic altar. The statue was removed during the neo-Gothic restoration of the Cathedral in 1865, but since 1912 it was placed in the south nave of the Cathedral. Two statues of the Baroque altar representing angels, also by Donner, are in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
The young Saint Martin on the rearing horse is depicted in Hungarian national ceremonial dress, and he bears the features of the young Imre Esterházy.
November 3, 2011
Pio Fedi, The Rape of Polyxena, 1858-66
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In the Woods at Giverny, Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading, 1887, Claude Monet.
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Félix Edouard Vallotton, Femme assise dans un fauteuil
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GPOY I’M GLAD MONDAY IS ALMOST OVER
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Julia Gukova. Illustration from The Legendary Unicorn, 2004
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Wingate Paine
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Ushio Amagatsu
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Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, The Uninvited Guest