Share a sculpture

[rhomboid]

The Sleeper Disturbed, c. 1756, figure in porcelain, 24 cm high, Rococo style, by Swiss modeller F.A. Bustelli.

[Lisztianwagner]

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, 1787-1793, sculpture in white marble, 155 cm × 168 cm, Neoclassical style, by the Italian artist Antonio Canova (200th anniversary of his death by the way).

[rhomboid]

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, 1787-1793, sculpture in white marble, 155 cm × 168 cm, Neoclassical style, by the Italian artist Antonio Canova (200th anniversary of his death by the way).

Wondrous marble composition by Canova, neoclassicism towards pre-romanticism

[rhomboid]

Jardin d'émail (1974), by Jean Dubuffet

[Cato]

Salvador Dali's...

...Swan-Elephant.

Depending on how you pose the figure, it is a swan...





...or an elephant!

[Mandryka]

Marino Marini, Angel of the City, Venice.

[arkiv]

Anti-phallic handcraft

[Herman]

The Marini reminds me of a delightfully awkward line in the wiki article about Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses.

"The work was written as part of a campaign to raise funds for the erection of a large bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven in his home town of Bonn."

I guess they pictured a really large erection?

[pjme]

Notre Dame de Grasse (15th century !) - now at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse. Possibly (the middle) part of a group of three sculptures : two praying figures + Madonna with child.

2005 restauration

[vandermolen]

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (c.1942)
By Sir Jacob Epstein
(carved alabaster)
Tate Gallery, London
This monumental work depicts the well-known theme from the Book of Genesis.
Jacob is wrestling with a stranger in a struggle that will last throughout the night. In the morning, the assailant reveals himself to be an angel and blesses Jacob for not abandoning the struggle. Though apparently locked in combat, the figures here seem to embrace and kiss, adding a charged sexual undertone to the sculpture. The work was carved from a single block of coloured alabaster. This work was carved in the middle of the Second World War and is a deeply personal work on the part of the artist who shared its hero's name.

[Cato]

Bruno Lucchesi (age 97 or so), an Italian-American sculptor: we saw his sculpture Saint Joseph and The Child Jesus recently in Orlando, Florida.

Here is a video with close-ups of the faces and other details:

[Mandryka]

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (c.1942)
By Sir Jacob Epstein
(carved alabaster)
Tate Gallery, London
This monumental work depicts the well-known theme from the Book of Genesis.
Jacob is wrestling with a stranger in a struggle that will last throughout the night. In the morning, the assailant reveals himself to be an angel and blesses Jacob for not abandoning the struggle. Though apparently locked in combat, the figures here seem to embrace and kiss, adding a charged sexual undertone to the sculpture. The work was carved from a single block of coloured alabaster. This work was carved in the middle of the Second World War and is a deeply personal work on the part of the artist who shared its hero's name.

I've known this one for what feels like all my life. It's certainly impressive in the context. Very often battle scenes in sculpture seem to be like throes of passion, there's one in the V and A -- maybe Samson killing someone -- with the bodies, naked of course --  intertwined.

[Mandryka]

Here's the Westminster Burghers of Calais (Rodin)



The think that I like about it is the feet.

[vandermolen]

I've known this one for what feels like all my life. It's certainly impressive in the context. Very often battle scenes in sculpture seem to be like throes of passion, there's one in the V and A -- maybe Samson killing someone -- with the bodies, naked of course --  intertwined.

Interesting to know. Epstein is one of my favourite sculptors.