Michelangelo’s early sculpture, such as thePietà(1499) and theDavid(1501–04), reveals a breathtaking technical ability in concert with adispositionto bend rules of anatomy and proportion in the service of greater expressive power. Although Michelangelo thought of himself first as a sculptor, his...
which is clearly seen in the outline illustrations made by British sculptorJohn Flaxmanin the 1790s for editions of the works ofHomer,Aeschylus, andDante. Those illustrations are notable for their drastic and powerful simplification of thehuman body, their denial of pictorial space, and their mini...
One of the top contemporary artists in the field of photorealism, the American sculptor Carole Feuerman continues the tradition of representational art pioneered by 20th century sculptors like Duane Hanson and John De Andrea. Like their work, Feuerman's plastic art is not only eerily true-to-lif...
St. Gregory of Nyssa calls attention to this divine irony in his sermon on the Beatitudes when he says that the judge of all creatures is subject to the judgment of mere humans, the author and sustainer of life tastes death, the all powerful is hungry for bread and dies on a cross, an...
With respect to the present work, I began it intending to prove that "Negroland" or Inner Africa is not cut off from the main-stream of events, as writers of philosophical history have always maintained, but connected by means of Islam with the lands of the East; and also that it has,...
One highlight from the Greek section should be mentioned here too: The marble torso of the Polykleitian Diadumenos type. Even if this is a later Roman copy, the work is of such delicate fineness that it can be considered as the best of all Roman replicas after the lost masterwork of ...
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feels overshadowed by his late mother, and so strangles these middle-aged women- He owns a large bronze statue by German sculptor Gerhard Marcks of Antigone leading her blind father in which killer Christopher Gill makes the revealing comment “I like its strength.” From Jump Cut – A Review...
John Flaxman, English sculptor, illustrator, and designer, a leading artist of the Neoclassical style in England.
Looking every bit the traditional sculptor, he wielded a hammer and chisel while at work on Sewing Machine (1943). This Danby blue marble form was one of a handful of stone carvings he produced during the period, a move prompted by wartime shortages of metal (Lyon et al. 2021). Although...