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10 Famous Sculptures


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24, 000-22,000 BC

Type: Oolitic limestone

'Venus of Willendorf'

Discovered by:Archaeologist Josef Szombathy (1908)Location: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna


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The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, isan 11 cm (4.3 in) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have

been made between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE. It was discovered in 1908

by archaeologist Josef Szombathy at a paleolithic site near Willendorf,a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. It is carved from an

oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.

The "Venus of Willendorf" is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in

Vienna.


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2520-2494 BC

Type: Hard StoneThe Great Sphinxof Giza' Artist: Ancient EgyptiansLocation: Giza, Egypt


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The Great Sphinx of Giza(Arabic: AbalHl, English: The Terrifying One)

commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a statue of a reclining or couchant

sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head) that

stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standing 73.5 metres (241 ft)

long, 6 metres (20 ft) wide, and 20.22 m (66.34 ft) high. It is the oldest

known monumental sculpture, and is commonly believed to have been built

by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the pharaohKhafra. It is made from hard stone.


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470-440 BC

Type: Bronze

'Discobolus'(Discus Thrower)

Artist: UnknownLocation: Greece


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The Discus Thrower, or the Discobolus, is a famous lost Greek bronzeoriginal. The sculpture of it is still unknown. The Discobolus was

completed towards the end of the severe period (470-440 BC). It is

known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones inmarble, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discopolus,

or smaller scaled versions in bronze. As always in Greek athletics, the

Discus Thrower is completely nude.


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130-100 BC

Type: Marble

Venus deMilo

Artist: Alexandros of Antiochocation: Louvre Museum, Milos


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The Venus de Milo sculpture was created sometime between 130 and 100B.C. it is believed to depict Aphrodite (Venus to the Romans) the Greek

goddess of love and beauty.

It is a marble sculpture, slightly larger than life size at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in)high. Its arms and original plinth have been lost. From an inscription that

was on its plinth, it is thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch; it

was earlier mistakenly attributed to the master sculptor Praxiteles. It is at

present on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Amazingly, the statuewas discovered accidentally ina farmers field.


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1012-1240 AD

Type: Marble

'The Marble Tombof Henry II'

Artist: Tilman Riemenschneiderocation: The Bamberg Cathedral in Germany


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The Bamberg cathedral is about 94 m long, 28 m broad, 26 m high,and the four towers are each about 81 m high. There are lots of

sculptures in the cathedral. One of the most magnificent ones is the

marble "Tomb of Henry II", the founder of the cathedral, and his wife,the empress Cunigunde. It took the famous sculptor Tilman

Riemenschneider 14 years to carve. The tomb is slightly higher than

floor level because below there is a crypt. The carvings round the side

tell of various episodes in the lives of the imperial couple.


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14981499 AD

Type: Marble

The Piet

Artist: MichaelangeloLocation: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City


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"The Piet" (Italian for pity) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture byMichelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. This

famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother

Mary after the Crucifixion. The theme is of Northern origin, popular by

that time in France but not yet in Italy. Michelangelo's interpretation ofthe Piet is unique to the precedents. It is an important work as it

balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism.

Piet is one of the three common artistic representations of a sorrowful

Virgin Mary. The subject is strictly called Lamentation in English,although Piet is often used for this as well, and is the normal term in

Italian.


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1504 AD

Type: Carrara marble

David

Artist: MichaelangeloLocation: Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence


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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, bythe Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 meter (17 feet) marble statue of a standing

male nude.The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of

Florence. Originally commissioned as one of a series to be positioned high up on the

facade of Florence Cathedral, the statue was instead placed in a public square,

outside the Palazzo Della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where itwas unveiled on 8 September, 1504. Because of the nature of the hero that it

represented, it soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the

Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more

powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The eyes of David,with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome. The statue was moved to the

Academia Gallery in Florence in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a

replica.


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1886 AD

Type: Pure copper

'The Statue ofLiberty'

Artist: Frdric Auguste BartholdiLocation: United States


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"The Statue of Liberty(Liberty Enlightening the World;

French: La Libert clairant le monde)

is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor,

designed by Frdric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The

statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robedfemale figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who

bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which isinscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4,

1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon offreedom and of the United States. Originally conceived as a gesture of

international friendship, the statue has become global symbol of freedom.


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1889 AD

Type: Marble

The Kiss

Artist: Auguste RodinLocation: Muse Rodin, Paris


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The Kiss is an 1889 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Like manyof Rodin's best-known individual sculptures, including The Thinker, the embracingcouple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs

decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell, commissioned for a

planned museum of art in Paris. The couple were later removed from the Gates and

replaced with another pair of lovers.

The sculpture, The Kiss, was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's Inferno (Circle 2, Canto 5) who falls

in love with her husband Giovanni Malatesta's younger brother Paolo. Having fallen in

love while reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, the couple are discovered and

killed by Francesca's husband. In the sculpture, the book can be seen in Paolo's hand.

The lovers' lips do not actually touch in the sculpture, suggesting that they were

interrupted and met their demise without their lips ever having touched.

When critics first saw the sculpture in 1887, they suggested the less specific title Le Baiser

(The Kiss).


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1902 AD

Type: Bronze and Marble

The Thinker

Artist: Auguste RodinLocation: Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, Paris


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The Thinker is one of the famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin .Originallynamed The Poet, the piece was part of a commission by the Muse des Arts

Dcoratifs, Paris to create a monumental portal to act as the door of the

museum. Rodin based his theme on The Divine Comedy of Dante and

entitled the portal The Gates of Hell. Each of the statues in the piecerepresented one of the main characters in the epic poem. The Thinker was

originally meant to depict Dante in front of the Gates of Hell, pondering his

great poem. (In the final sculpture, a miniature of the statue sits atop the

gates, pondering the hellish fate of those beneath him.) The sculpture isnude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to

represent intellect as well as poetry.


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Modern Sculptures


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Land Art Sculpture


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(above) Land Art Sculpture made upof gathered stones.


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Recycle found Art Sculpture


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(above) Recycle Art Sculpture made upof gathered bottles.


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(above) Dinosaurs Ice Sculpture


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(above) Classic Car Ice Sculpture


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Architectural Sculpture


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(above) Sculpted pediment


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Wax Sculpture

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(above) Michael Jacksons

wax figure close-up.

(below) Michael Jacksons wax figurein his signature move.

Michael Jacksons wax figure@ Madame Tussauds Wax

Museum, London.


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Kinetic Sculpture


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(above)Theo Jansens Kinetic SculptureBeach Beast


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Theo Jansens Kinetic Sculpture.

He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals that are able to walk

using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusionof art and engineering.

Constructed as intricate assemblages of piping, wood, and wing-like sails, Jansen's

creatures are constantly evolving and have become excellently adapted to their sandy

beach environment. The creatures sport legs, which "prove to be more efficient onsand than wheels...they dont need to touch every inch of the ground along the way,

as a wheel has to".

Theo Jansen has been creating wind-walking examples of artificial life since 1990.

What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation ofmachines that are able to react to their environment: "over time, these skeletons have

become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and

eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live

their own lives."


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(above) Theo Jansens Beach Beast", exhibited on the

Linz city square during Ars Electronica, 2005.


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Did you know?Bicycle Wheel is said to be the first kinetic sculpture.

In 1913 at his Paris studio he

mounted the bicycle wheel upside down

onto a stool, spinning it occasionally

just to watch it..

Later he denied that its creation was purposeful,

though it has come to be known as the first of his readymades.

It was not until he began making readymades a few years later in

New York that he decided Bicycle Wheel was a readymade.

The original from 1913 was lost, and Duchamp recreated the sculpture in 1951.

Bicycle Wheel is a readymade by MarcelDuchamp consisting of a bicycle fork

with front wheel mounted upside-down

on a wooden stool.


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(left) Marcel Duchampwith his piece"Bicycle Wheel", the first of his "ready-made" pieces, from 1913. He said about

this piece "To see that wheel turning

was very soothing, very comforting, a

sort of opening of the avenues onto

other things than the material life ofevery day. I liked the idea of having a

bicycle wheel in my studio. I enjoyed

looking at it just as I enjoy looking at

the flames dancing in a fireplace."


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Famous Sculptors


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(above) Donatello's statue outside

of the Uffizi Galleria.

Donatellos ProfileBirth name Donato di Niccol di Betto Bardi

Born c. 1386Florence, Italy

Died 13 December 1466 (aged 80)Florence, Italy

Nationality Florentine, Italian

Field Sculpture

Training Lorenzo Ghiberti

Movement Early Renaissance

Works St. George, David, EquestrianMonument of Gattamelata

Donatello


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Michaelangelos Profile

Birth name Michelangelo di LodovicoBuonarroti Simoni

Born 6 March 1475Caprese near Arezzo, Republic of

Florence (present-dayTuscany, Italy)

Died 18 February 1564 (aged 88)Rome, Papal States (present-day

Italy)

Nationality Italian

Field Sculpture, painting, architecture,and poetry

Training Apprentice to DomenicoGhirlandaio

Movement High Renaissance

Works David, The Creation of Adam,Piet, Sistine Chapel Ceiling

(above) Portrait of Michelangelo by

Jacopino del Conte(after 1535) at the age of 60

Michaelangelo


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(above) Self-portrait in red chalk, circa

1512 to 1515 Royal Library of Turin.

Leonardo DaVincis Profile

Birth name Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Born April 15, 1452Vinci, Italy, near Florence

Died May 2, 1519 (aged 67)Amboise, France

Nationality Italian

Field architect, anatomist,sculptor, engineer, inventor,

mathematician,musician, painter and humanist.

Movement High Renaissance

Works Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, TheVitruvian Man

Da Vinci


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(above) Self-Portrait of Bernini, circa 1623

Berninis Profile

Birth name Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Born 7 December 1598

Naples, Kingdom of Naples,in present-day Italy

Died 28 November 1680 (aged 81)Rome, Papal States, in

present-day Italy

Nationality Italian

Field Sculpture, painting,architecture

Movement Baroque

Works David, Apollo andDaphne, The Rape of

Proserpina, Ecstasy of SaintTheresa

Bernini


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(above) Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodins Profile

Birth name Franois-Auguste-Ren Rodin

Born 12 November 1840

Paris

Died 17 November 1917 (aged 77)Meudon, le-de-France

Nationality French

Field Sculpture drawing

Works The Age of Bronze, 1877The Walking Man, 187778

The Burghers of Calais , 1889

The Kiss, 1889

The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902

Awards Lgion d'Honneur

Rodin


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Daniel Chester FrenchBorn April 20, 1850

Exeter, New Hampshire

Died October 7, 1931 (aged 81)Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Nationality American

Field Sculpture

Movement American Renaissance

Influenced by Hiram Powers, Thomas Ball

Works Seated Abraham Lincoln, etc.

(above) Portrait of Daniel Chester French

Daniel French


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Theo Jansens ProfileBorn 14 March 1948 (age 63)

The Hague, Netherlands

Nationality Netherlands

Known for Kinetic sculpture

(above) Theo Jansen with his kinetic sculpture,

Beach Beast.

Theo Jansen


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(above) Marcel Duchamp playing chess in 1952.(Kay Bell Reynal photo in the Smithsonian

Institution Archives of American Art.)

Marcel DuchampMarcel Duchamps Profile

Birth name Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

Born 28 July 1887

Blainville-Crevon, FranceDied 2 October 1968 (aged 81)

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Nationality French, became a U.S. citizen in 1955

Field Painting, sculpture, film

Movement Dada, Surrealism

Works Les joueurs d'chec (Chess Players), 1911 Roue de bicyclette (Bicycle Wheel), 1913/1964

Fontaine (Fountain), 1917/1964 Rotoreliefs No. 11-12, 1935

La bote-en-valise (Box in a Valise), 1936-1941/1968

Prire de toucher (Please Touch), 1947


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Presented by:BSCS II-AGroup 8

Presented to:

Humanities | Sculpture

Prof. Myrtle Kawabata


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Joanna BeltranJojie Ann Fabia

Chester Sabio

John Carlo Eclar


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