"Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form."
Emerson, 1841
Few things in this world are so strictly personal as the interpretation of art. The appreciation of forms, shapes, contours and colours is always an intimate process of mysterious, aesthetic, spiritual chemistry. In latin it is said "de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum." Therefore it is almost impossible to try to present ones own perception about even a few examples of "great" sculptures which enchanted humanity for centuries. Nevertheless I introduce here a few masterpieces, from various periods, which impressed particularly my spirit. Some of them might live in the admiration of people from generation to generation until the marble and the bronze will have worn themselves completely away.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598 -1680)
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| David |
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Fountain of the Four Rivers
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Fernando Botero
( 1932 - )
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| Adam and Eve |
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| Smoking Woman |
Constantin Brancusi
(1876 - 1957)
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The Prayer
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| The Endless Column |
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| The Endless Column - detail |
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| Madame Pagany |
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| The Kiss |
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| Maiastra |
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| Bird |
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| Gold Bird in Space |
Michaelangelo Buonarroti
(1475 - 1564)
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| David |
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| Pieta |
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| Bearded Slave |
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| Dawn and Dusk |
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| Moses |
Alexander Calder
(1898 -1976)
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| Crinkly |
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| Eagle |
Antonio Canova
(1757 - 1822)
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Hercules and the Minataur
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| Pauline Bonaparte |
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The Three Graces
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Benvenuto Cellini
(1500 - 1571)
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| Perseus with the head of Medusa |
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Saliere
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Donato di Nicolo di Betto Bardi: Donatello
(1386 - 1466)
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David
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| St. George |
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| Judith and Holofernes |
Alberto Giacometti
(1901 - 1966)
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| Man Striding |
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| Cat Maitre d'Hotel |
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| Hound |
Lorenzo Ghiberti
(1378 - 1455)
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The Gates of Paradise
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| The Gates of Paradise - detail |
Giacomo Manzu
(1908 - 1991)
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| Cardinal Seated |
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| L'Aventura di Ulisse |
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| Doors of Death - detail |
Henry Moore
(1898 - 1986)
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| King and Queen |
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| Reclining Figure |
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| Recling Figure |
Phidias
( c480 BC - 430 BC)
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| Athena |
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| Athena - Parthenon |
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Wounded Amazon |
Praxiteles
(4thC BC)
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| Aphrodite |
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| Hermes and the infant Dionysos |
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| Apollo Sauroctonos |
Auguste Rodin
(1840 - 1917)
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| The Thinker |
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| The Eternal Idol |
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| The Burghers of Calais |
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| The Kiss |
Andrea del Verrocchio
(1435 - 1488)
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| Bartolomeo Colleoni |
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| David |
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| Lorenzo de Medici |
Attributed to Alexandros of Antioch
(c130-100BC)
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| Venus de Milo |
Attributed to Thutmose
(c130 BC)
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| Nefertiti |
Unknown
(c190BC)
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| The Winged Victory of Samothrace |
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