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Togatus Barberini is a Roman marble sculpture from around the first-century AD [1] that depicts a full-body figure, referred to as a togatus, holding the heads of deceased ancestors in either hand. [2]
Portrait bust of a man, Ancient Rome, 60 BC. Verism was a realistic style in Roman art.It principally occurred in portraiture of politicians, whose imperfections of the face were exacerbated in order to highlight their old age and gravitas.
Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan udɔ̃]; [1] 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828) was a French neoclassical sculptor.. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment.
Veristic portrait bust of an old man, head covered (capite velato), either a priest or paterfamilias (marble, mid-1st century BC) The origin of the realism of Roman portraits may be, according to some scholars, because they evolved from wax death masks. These death masks were taken from bodies and kept in a home altar.
Throughout his career Epstein was a prolific sculptor of portrait heads and busts both of friends, family members, professional and amateur models but also of many of the most prominent public figures of his time, including Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw and Joseph Conrad.
Jo Davidson (March 30, 1883 – January 2, 1952) was an American sculptor.Although he specialized in realistic, intense portrait busts, Davidson did not require his subjects to formally pose for him; rather, he observed and spoke with them.
Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione Borghese was the nephew of Pope Paul V, and had commissioned other works from Bernini in the 1620s. Both versions of this portrait are in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
In 1888–1889, Ward, along with his studio assistant Francois J. Rey and a man named W. Hunt, taught a sculpture class at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [6] Four years later, he was invited by Harvard University to give a series of lectures. [7] Ward was married three times. He married his first wife, Anna Bannan, on February 10, 1858.