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A handsome youth feeds a swan that he his holding by its neck. Intended as an ornamental piece, Álvarez combines his taste for the dynamic forms of Greek sculpture with the polished, matt finis [+]
This sculpture in the Classical style depicts Diana, the Roman goddess of nature, forests and the hunt, armed with her traditional attributes -a bow and an arrow which she is delicately removing from [+]
Apollo holds a lyre and in keeping with Praxitelean ideals adopts an elegant contraposto pose. The original version was commissioned by Antonio Canova to decorate the Real Casa del Labrador at Aranjue [+]
This is the most important work by the artist known as the “Spanish Canova”, in reference to the great master of Neo-classical sculpture, Antonio Canova, who was Álvarez Cubero’s master. The gr [+]
Rossini (1792-1868), one of the great nineteenth-century Italian composers, was best known for his operas, many of them in the opera buffa style. Alvarez expressively conveys the composer’s highly-ind [+]
Álvarez Cubero trained in Rome, and in 1816 was appointed Court Sculptor by King Ferdinand. Because he was Spain’s leading exponent of Neoclassical art, he was known as “the Spanish Canova”. In [+]
Posthumous life-size statue of Queen Isabel de Braganza (1797-1818), the second wife of Fernando VII (1784-1833). The queen appears sitting on a chair adorned with figures of castles, lions and lilies [+]
