Lyon plaster sculpture Study
The Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon have a large collection of plaster sculpture study, as this young man prostrate in kneeling position which seems to beg a threat or watch fatality. Unfortunately, I…
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The God of Coligny
The God of Coligny is a bronze at the Museum of Gallo-Roman civilization in Lyon – Fourvière. This Statue was discovered in 1897 in the town of Coligny, it was made around the 1st century…
Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Florence
The Loggia dei Lanzi on the Piazza della Signora in Florence is the high focus of a visit to this historical and magnificent city . Perseus holding Medusa’s head by Cellini is one of the…
Statues of the gardens of the Villa Borghese
The park of Villa Borghese is a vast area north of Rome acquired in the late 16th century by the Borghese family. One of its main buildings is the Villa Medici and the other is…
Neptune Fountain in Rome
There are about more than 2,500 fountains in Rome, from the smallest like the Fontana delle api up to the large and majestic as the one of Trevi. The Fountain of Neptune is one of…
The gilt bronze statue of Hercules
The gilt bronze statue of Hercules in the Capitoline Museum in Rome shows him whit the golden apple of the Hesperides in his left hand, a fruit that is also associate to Heracles in the…
Statue of the Archangel Michael in Castel Sant’Angelo
One might expect that the name of the sculptor of the bronze Archangel adorns the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome could be Sanmartino or Canova, but it is a Flemish sculptor named Peter Anton von Verschaffelt…
Roman Votive Miniatures
God, athlete or family member The votive figurines have existed since prehistoric times but will take their large scale expansions among the Greeks. Made of terracotta, the Tanagras had a craze that exceeded the borders…
Tomb of Napoleon low reliefs
Napoleon idealized heroes in ten bas-reliefs decorating the crypt of his tomb in the Invalides, almost seem from the Roman or Greek era with the chlamys and the chitôns. The bas-relief of public works is…
Torso of man-high-Roman Empire
Man’s torso – Marble – High Roman Empire 2nd centuries BC J. -C … Here is another example of a Roman copy of Greek sculpture, from the 5th century BC. J. -C. in that case….
Napoleon Bonaparte in front of the future
This magnificent bust of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Ben Weider collection at MBAM is positioned in the centre of one of the front colonnades of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which offers a special urban…
The fountain of Dioscuri, Piazza Quirinal in Rome
The fountain of Dioscuri is located on the Quirinal Square in Rome, where you can also see the Palace of the same name, official residence of the President of Italy. Two majestic statues, representing Castor…