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In 1897, archaeologists uncovered a stunning artifact on a private estate at L'Alcúdia in Valencia, Spain. This find was a statue
In 1897, archaeologists uncovered a stunning artifact on a private estate at L'Alcúdia in Valencia, Spain. This find was a statue
Antinous, also called Antinoös, [a] was a Greek youth from Bithynia and a favourite and probable lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian.[1][2][3] Following his premature death before his twentieth birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in both the Greek East and Latin West, sometimes as a god and sometimes merely as a hero .[4]
Gerard Mas
This figure of motherhood with a child on her lap personifies the goddess of the earth, guarantor of the abundance of resources, fertility and prosperous health. Ritual statue intended to be placed on an altar. She was revered by members of the powerful “Ogboni” or “Osugbo” society, responsible for justice. Polychrome patina coated with a crusty coating. Weight: 4.6 kg
The equation of white marble with beauty is not an inherent truth of the universe; it's a dangerous construct that continues to influence white supremacist ideas today.
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.
There are probably few representations of Renaissance art more iconic than Michelangelo's sculpture of the Biblical hero David. In the minds...
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.
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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 wi
Spanish artist Gerard Mas, who is currently based in Barcelona, creates humorous marble sculptures that combine quirky, cheeky attitude of modern day culture wi
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.
Statue, The Angel of the Annunciation, carved, painted and gilded oak, Northern France, about 1415-50
The Lady of Baza A gorgeous polychrome sandstone funerary statue that also served as a cinerary urn, found in Tomb 155 of the Necropolis of the Sanctuary of Baza, ca. 400-350 BC. #Iberian Image: National Archaeological Museum, Spain (1969/68/155 / 123A)
Lot 69. Collection Galerie Jacques Barrère . Importante statue de cheval , Chine, Dynastie Han (206 av JC-220 ap JC) . Bois sculpté, traces de polyychromie . 101 x 92 x 24 cm. Estimation 15 000 - 20 000 EUR . © Giquello SVV Fait de plusieurs pièces...
“Jeff Koons: Apollo" is a “metaphysical dialogue between the contemporary and ancient,” according to organizers.
A CANOSAN POLYCHROME POTTERY OINOCHOE APULIA, CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C. With a goddess driving a quadriga to the left, wearing a blue chiton and a purple mantle billowing behind, pinned with a white brooch, adorned with a rayed diadem and nimbus, bracelets and earrings, a filleted goad in her raised left hand, the red reins in her right, the chariot red, the rearing horses joined by red reins, each with a blue collar with white beads and red pendants, a blue and pink rosette in the field before the lead horse, a filleted stele on either side framing the scene, all on a pink ground, orange below, blue rosettes with white dots on pink and alternating pink and blue ovolo above, the pink neck with a molded standing figure of Eros with blue wings, holding a pink mantle draped around his back side, orange for his hair, pulled up in a chignon, the ribbed handle with a molded frontal head for the handle-plate, with orange hair, pink lips and earrings, the front of the handle with a similar head on the interior of the trefoil mouth, tongues on the rim 22 7/8 in. (58.1 cm.) high CNY1292010127
