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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 [+]
The goddess Fortuna holds a cornucopia and a rudder resting on a globe. The statue is based on a Greek original, an Artemis by the School of Polyclitus (4th century BC), as may be seen from the simila [+]
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 [+]
A representation of the first amorous encounter of a youthful couple. In a style some have called lyrical, Blay transmits the soft warmth of adolescent figures modeled with exceptional realism. They a [+]
The goddess of love, draped in a light tunic, embraces the god of war, who wears a helmet; their gazes meet in a composition conveying a refined sensuality. This is a reproduction of an original by th [+]
Blay customarily made versions of fragments of his works, which he handled separately. This sculpture at the Museo del Prado is a fragment from the group titled The Onset of Winter. During his stay in [+]
The eagle and weapons are part of a funerary monument from the period of Emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-14 A.D.). This sculpture was found with many other works in the country villa of Marcus Valerius Mess [+]
The goddess Venus rises from a shell, while Cupid plays with a piece of drapery. Although Ginés did not study outside Spain, he absorbed the Neoclassical style from other contemporary sculpture [+]
This elegant portrait bust depicts María Purificación Fernández y Cadenas (1884-1965), second wife of the politician José Canalejas. Following his assassination, the Spanis [+]
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 [+]
Torreggiani, a specialist in portrait busts, wanted to break completely with official tradition and impress Queen Isabel II with this spectacular technical feat. The queen’s face is veiled, a device r [+]
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 [+]
This decorative element consists of a Roman cartibulum leg to which a bovine head crowned by a platform with volutes was added in the 17th century. The piece was restored in 1999. Paradoxically, this [+]
The Emperor (1500-1558) is represented with attributes alluding to his power: armor, the necklace of the Golden Fleece and a crossing sash. The armor has a low relief of the Virgin Mary carved on the [+]
In 1549 in Brussels Charles V commissioned Leone Leoni to execute a group of statues of himself and his deceased wife the Empress Elizabeth of Portugal.They were to be in different formats (bust and h [+]
This marble statue and other seven more (E000068, E000041, E000040, E000062, E000038, E000069, E000037) were unearthed in about 1500 in Hadrian´s Villa at Tivoli, where the decorated the stage of the [+]
This life-size bust of Felipe II (1527-1598) has a breastplate, a gorget and a cord with the Golden Fleece as its only ornamental elements. The lower part ends in a winged figurehead. The polished sur [+]
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