Lyon plaster sculpture Study
Étude de sculpture platre 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…
Étude de sculpture platre 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…
Bacchus on a Panther in India. When you think about the Greek or Roman mythology your first guest is not to associate a country like India to it. According to the myth, Bacchus (also…
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…
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…
Stucco in the castles of France and Italy are often overlooked and admired in their overall rather than in details and that is somewhat normal because they mostly are decorative pieces around sculpture and paintings…
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…
This is an François-Emile Ehrmann and Théodore Deck majolica of a soldier inspired from Castel Durante at the Petit Palais in Paris. A majolica is a glossy ceramic or earthenware therein, and we find in…
The Forty- three portraits of painters of the studio Charles Gleyre is an art work you can see at Le Petit Palais in Paris. Claude Monet, Frederic Bazille, Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir, they all…
Francis I of France gallery is located on the first floor of the Château de Fontainebleau. Like most large rooms pageantry, it is richly decorated with wood paneling and stucco that are rarely photographed in…
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…