From the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur Glyptothek, Munich, 2003 Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection, …
This small, painted votive statue depicts the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Wife Nefertiti holding hands (a notedly unusual pose in New Kingdom artwork). The king wears the blue
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Eckhart II, Margrave of Meissen and his wife Uta by an unknown German gothich sculptor, c. 1245-50
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Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and "Laocoön and His Sons" — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of being the ground zero of Western culture, the original from which an entire civilization's canon has sprung.
Now this is one of the most vividly painted Roman relics at the MFA, aside from the preserved frescoes. The colors of this woman's toga are still vivid and the folds of the toga as smooth and graceful as ever. The face is also nicely detailed.
In the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto there is a female head made of terracotta, which later became the face of MArTA.
Gerard Mas was born in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Girona, Spain and studied at Llotja Art School, Barcelona. Mas is influenced by the early modern period and the Renaissance but he never forgets to add some elements from present days. His favourite materials are marble, alabaster, wood, resin and bronze.
Spanish artist Gerard Mas, who is currently based in Barcelona, creates humorous marble sculptures that combine quirky, cheeky attitude of modern day culture with reserved behavioral traits of Renaissance era. Sculptor shows elegant 15th-century ladies picking their noses, chewing gum and blowing bubbles, or using headsets while talking on the phone. I thought about the millions of attitudes and situations that old artworks couldn't capture because they were simply inappropriate for a lady in the 15th century, Mas says.
Terracotta group of two seated women, perhaps Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Made at Myrina, north-west Asia-Minor, circa 180 BCE. Said to be from Asia-Minor. (The British Museum, London)
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Spanish artist Gerard Mas, who is currently based in Barcelona, creates humorous marble sculptures that combine quirky, cheeky attitude of modern day culture with reserved behavioral traits of Renaissance era.
Antonio Rossellino was the youngest and most notable member of a family of sculptors and architects prominent in Florence during the 1440s and 1450s. He trained in the family studio under his oldest
Statue composée de trois éléments : la tête de la Vierge et celle de l'Enfant, sculptées isolément, sont mobiles. Une cavité a été creusée postérieurement.
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Gerard Mas, Lady of the Lollipop , alabaster. © Gerard Mas Gerard Mas, Lady of the chewing gum , alabaster. © Gerard Mas Gerard Mas, Dama del Llengot , alabaster. © Gerard Mas Gerard Mas, Dama del bogavante , alabaster. © Gerard Mas Gerard Mas, Lady...
