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La Piscine Museum, Roubaix More images: Fireside Dream [17] 1899 Bronze and marble 22 x 29.5 x 24.5 La Piscine Museum, Roubaix More images: Image online [17] Fortune: 1900 Bronze 47.5 x 35.5 x 20.5 Perseus and the Gorgon [17] 1897 to 1902 Bronze 51 x 30 x 25 La Piscine Museum, Roubaix More images: Image online [17] Bust of Woman: 1903 Bronze 40 ...
The gallery's holdings today contain 192 sculptures, 583 drawings, 4 paintings, 291 architectural plans (almost entirely made by Ivan Meštrović and dating between 1898 and 1961), and 2 furniture sets, one of which is made according to Meštrović's sketches and is a part of the new permanent display in the former dining room.
Philadelphia Museum of Art More images: The Hand of God [57] 1897 to 1898 Marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 73.7 x 60.3 x 64.1 More images: The Evil Spirits [58] 1899 Marble National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 71.2 x 75.7 x 59 More images: Man and his Thought [59] 1896 to 1900 Marble National Gallery (Berlin) 77 x 46 More images
Image credits: JamesLucasIT Sculpture as an art form dates back to 32,000 years B.C. Back then, of course, small animal and human figures carved in bone, ivory, or stone counted as sculptures.
Armstrong, Craven, et al., 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, 1976 Caffin, Charles H., American Masters of Sculpture , Doubleday, Page & Company, New York 1913 Conner, Janis and Joel Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture, Studio Works 1893–1939 , University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1989
Sculpture Marble Height 44 cm (17.3 in) 1 [4] Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni: Santa Prassede, Rome 1613–1616 Sculpture Marble Life-size 2 [4] A Faun Teased by Children: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1616–1617 Sculpture Marble Height 132 cm (52 in) NA [5] The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence: Uffizi, Florence 1617 Sculpture Marble
Throughout history, statues have been associated with cult images in many religious traditions, from Ancient Egypt, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome to the present. Egyptian statues showing kings as sphinxes have existed since the Old Kingdom , the oldest being for Djedefre ( c. 2500 BC ). [ 10 ]
This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least 50 m (160 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.