#bronze sculpture
A bronze statue of the god Mercury unearthed in Reims in 1930, age unknown
Musée Saint-Remi, Reims
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Candelabra Foot, bronze, mid 12th century
Musée Saint-Remi, Reims
This is just a fragment of a huge bronze candelabra made for Saint-Remi Church. It measured more than 6 meters tall and 5 meters wide. Each of the four feet depicted one of the four evangelists surrounded by fantastic animals and decorated with pieces of rock crystal. The candelabra was smashed during the French Revolution, and this is the only piece that was saved.
Photos by Charles Reeza
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The sexiest grave I’ve ever seen - Saint-Vincent Cemetery, Montmartre, Paris
I can’t find any information about Beatrice Bizière.
Photos by Charles Reeza
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Saloua Raouda Choucair, ‘Trajectory of a Line’, 1957-59.
Image courtesy of the Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation.
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Constantin Brancuși (1876-1957), La jeune fille sophistiquée (Portrait de Nancy Cunard), conceived in 1928 and cast in 1932.
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“The Milky Way” (La Voie Lactée) (1904) silvered bronze figural lamp by French sculptor Léo Laporte-Blairsy (1865-1923).
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Dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilisation, city of Mohenjo-daro (modern-day Pakistan) c. 2300–1750 BCE, bronze ,made in lost-wax casting method, 10.5 × 5 cm, National Museum, New Delhi, Delhi, India.
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Bronze statue of Apollo as a hoplite
- 6th - 7th century BCE
- Found in the Archaic Temple of Apollo at ancient Metropolis in the Archaeological Museum of Karditsa
FLORENTINE CIVIC SCULPTURE I: THE EXTERIOR SCULPTURES OF ORSANMICHELE
For the first quarter of the 15th century, the guild church of Orsanmichele was a constantly evolving display space for Florentine sculpture, with innovative figures by major sculptors appearing on the exterior every 1-3 years. Some of the most important developments in Renaissance sculpture occurred at Orsanmichele, including the use of linear perspective in relief sculpture and the recovery of the ancient techniques of monumental bronze casting.
1337: Loggia constructed in the Florentine grain market at Orsanmichele.
1348: Orsanmichele converted to a chapel for major guilds of Florence. Upper level converted to municipal granary.
1359: Loggia enclosed.
1380-1404: City’s 14 major guilds required to supply full-sized, free-standing bronze or marble statue of its patron saint for placement in a niche on the exterior of the ground floor. Cost of bronze figure approximately 10 times more than marble figure.
1399: Giovanni di Piero Tedesco, Madonna of the Rose (marble), Arte del Medici e Speziali, installed.
1406: With only 3 of 14 statues installed, city ordinance requires all guild statues installed by 1416.
1408: Nanni di Banco, Quattro Santi Coronati (marble), Maestri di Pietra e Legname, installed.
1411: Donatello, St Mark (marble), Arte dei Linaiuoli e Rigattieri, installed.
1411-1415: Nanni di Banco, St Eligius (marble), Arte dei Maniscalchi, installed.
1412-1414: Nanni di Banco, St Philip (marble), Arte dei Calzaiuoli, installed.
1412-1416: Lorenzo Ghiberti, St John the Baptist (bronze), Arte di Calimana, installed.
1412-1415: Niccolò di Piero Lamberti, St James the Major (marble), Arte dei Conciatori e Pellicciai, installed.
1415: Filippo Brunelleschi, St Peter (marble), Arte dei Becchai, installed.
1416: Donatello, St George (marble), Arte dei Corazzai, installed.
1419-1420: Lorenzo Ghiberti, St Matthew (bronze), Arte del Cambio, installed.
1423-1425: Donatello, St Louis of Toulouse (bronze), Parte Guelfa, installed. Later replaced by Verrochio group.
1428: Lorenzo Ghiberti, St Stephen (bronze), Arte della Lana, installed.
1467-1483: Andrea del Verrocchio, Christ and St Thomas (bronze), Tribunale di Mercanzia, installed.
