Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York |
The Hand of God by Auguste Rodin, 1906 |
Orpheus and Eurydice by Auguste Rodin, 1893 |
Eternal Spring by Auguste Rodin, 1907 |
Preliminary model of the Statue of Liberty by Frédéric Agouste Bartholdi,1875 |
Faun Teased by Children by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ca 1616 |
Wood carving, Alexander Menshikov, ca 1703 |
Cupid and Psyche - plaster model by Antonio Canova, 1794 |
Canova's Cupid and Psyche execution in marble is at the Louvre |
Cupid and Psyche - plaster model by Antonio Canova, 1794 |
St. John the Baptist by Luigi Bienaimé, 1836 |
The Demidoff Table by Lorenzo Bartolini, 1845 |
The Demidoff Table by Lorenzo Bartolini, 1845 |
Paris by Antonio Canova, ca 1822 |
Canova's 1807 original of Paris is at the Hermitage |
Paris by Antonio Canova, ca 1822 |
Paris by Antonio Canova, ca 1822 |
Paris by Antonio Canova, ca 1822 |
Ugolino and his Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, ca 1865 |
The story of Ugolino della Gherardesca is included in Dante's Inferno |
As the imprisoned Ugolino starves, his sons offer their bodies for his sustenance |
An 1862 bronze of this composition is at the Musée d'Orsay |
Venus by Antonio Canova, ca 1822 |
Herackles the Archer by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, ca 1909, bronze |
Another bronze of this composition is at the Musée d'Orsay |
La Frileuse by Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1787 |
Lucretia by Philippe Bertrand, ca 1704 |
Marble stele (grave marker) of Sostratos, Greek (Attic) ca 375 BC |
Apollo Lykeios, Roman ca 130-161 AD copy of 4th C. BC Greek original attributed to Praxiteles |
Marble statue of a wounded warrior, AD 138–181 copy of ca 450BC Greek bronze |
Marble statue of a wounded warrior, AD 138–181 copy of ca 450BC Greek bronze |
Wounded Amazon, Roman 1-2nd C. AD copy of 4th C. BC Greek original |
Metropolitan Museum of Art sculpture collection |
Diadoumenos - Roman copy ca 69-96 AD copy of a 430 BC Greek original by Polykleitos |
Of this piece, only the head, arms and legs from the knee down are ancient, the rest cast from the copy in Athens |
Marble statue of a kouros (youth) Greek (Attic, Archaic) ca. 590–580 B.C. |
Marble statue of a kouros (youth) Greek (Attic, Archaic) ca. 590–580 B.C. |
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Meleager by Antonio Gai, Venice, 1735 |
Hiawatha by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1874 |
Hiawatha pondering in the forest on the welfare of his people, Saint-Gaudens |
Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1928 cast of 1892 original |
Bohemian Bear Tamer by Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1888 |
Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story, 1869 |
Metropolitan Musuem of Art |
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Bronze of a male nude |
Detail of a bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Bronze of a warrior striking a centaur |