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Invitation by Delphine Brabant - Bronze sculpture, group of human figures, brown
Invitation by Delphine Brabant - Bronze sculpture, group of human figures, brown

Invitation by Delphine Brabant - Bronze sculpture, group of human figures, brown

By Delphine Brabant

Located in Paris, FR

Invitation is a bronze sculpture with an iron stand by contemporary artist Delphine Brabant, dimensions are 50 × 30 × 10 cm (19.7 × 11.8 × 3.9 in). The sculpture is signed and numbe...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Iron

Romp 12/30

Romp 12/30

By Sandy Graves

Located in Napa, CA

Born in Colorado and raised in Nebraska, Sandy Graves first forayed into the art world by presenting work as a child and 4-H member at local county fairs. As she continued her educat...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

19th century puppet figure demon red ornate gold mythological Indonesian
19th century puppet figure demon red ornate gold mythological Indonesian

19th century puppet figure demon red ornate gold mythological Indonesian

Located in Milwaukee, WI

This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. This shadow puppet, 19" high, was used in Indonesian Wayang puppet shows. Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art found in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, wherein a dramatic story is told through shadows thrown by puppets and sometimes combined with human characters. The art form celebrates the Indonesian culture and artistic talent; its origins are traced to the spread of Hinduism in the medieval era and the arrival of leather-based puppet arts called Tholu bommalata from southern India. Wayang refers to the entire dramatic show. Sometimes the leather puppet...

Category

19th Century Folk Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Leather

Showgirl 1

Showgirl 1

By Enrique Gomez de Molina

Located in Bozeman, MT

Enrique Gomez de Molina’s sculptures are fascinating, humorous and unsettling. He uses the parts of once living animals that he purchases online and from vendors and farmers. But unl...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media

Tawny Lion
Tawny Lion

Tawny Lion

By Wendy Klemperer

Located in Bozeman, MT

Wendy Klemperer was born in 1958 in Boston, MA. Raised in Cambridge and Watertown, she was most able to explore her passion for animals and nature during summers spent at her grandmo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Resin

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd SNOOP DAWG STARRY EYED 2 AP 2026 BEST OF CHROMA!!!
CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd SNOOP DAWG STARRY EYED 2 AP 2026 BEST OF CHROMA!!!

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd SNOOP DAWG STARRY EYED 2 AP 2026 BEST OF CHROMA!!!

By CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

SNOOP DOG by CHROMA (Richard Bruce Wolfryd) STARRY EYED 2 Snoop Dog reimagines one of popular culture's most beloved characters through the visual language of contemporary Huichol ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Mixed Media

Neapolitan Girl
Neapolitan Girl

Neapolitan Girl

By Emilio Fiaschi

Located in Astoria, NY

Emilio Fiaschi (Italian, 1858-1941) Neapolitan Girl Alabaster Bust, late 19th century, depicting a young girl hiding her face behind her hands, on a socle, signed "E Fiaschi" to back...

Category

Late 19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Alabaster

Linda Stein, Starting from Canal Street 008 - Mixed Media Collage Wall Sculpture
Linda Stein, Starting from Canal Street 008 - Mixed Media Collage Wall Sculpture

Linda Stein, Starting from Canal Street 008 - Mixed Media Collage Wall Sculpture

By Linda Stein

Located in New York, NY

Linda Stein, Starting from Canal Street 008 - Mixed Media Collage Wall Sculpture These wall constructions and dioramas were made in the 1970s when Linda Stein was also working on he...

Category

1970s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Mirror, Wood, Paper, Mixed Media

Le Rieur napolitain
Le Rieur napolitain

Le Rieur napolitain

Located in Como, IT

Sculptor probably active in France in the late 19th century. The sculpture depicts a particularly famous subject by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875), titled "Le Rieur napolitain," ...

Category

Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

By Erté

Located in Greenwich, CT

Erté’s image of Helen of Troy also exists as a gouache painting and a serigraph. Known as "the face that launched a thousand ships" and as Zeus' daughter, her story is one that is intricately intertwined with many of the Greek gods and goddesses...

Category

20th Century Art Deco Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

French Painted Maquette for Sculpture Judaica Klezmer Musician
French Painted Maquette for Sculpture Judaica Klezmer Musician

French Painted Maquette for Sculpture Judaica Klezmer Musician

By Mane Katz

Located in Surfside, FL

Mane-Katz (1894-1962) maquette plaster relief for bronze sculpture. (it is made from sort of composite material and then painted or colored from the casting. there is no foundry mar...

Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster, Paint

Bronze Pine Cone 22-555 - nature inspired, still life, forged bronze sculpture
Bronze Pine Cone 22-555 - nature inspired, still life, forged bronze sculpture

Bronze Pine Cone 22-555 - nature inspired, still life, forged bronze sculpture

By Floyd Elzinga

Located in Bloomfield, ON

Canadian sculptor Floyd Elzinga finds inspiration for his iconic imagery in nature. From his studio on the rugged Niagara escarpment, he creates beautiful sculptures using natural forms—trees, the maple leaf and pine cones. This new series of pine cones are superbly detailed, and hand forged from bronze. The polished finish lends an elegance to these tabletop pieces. “The natural world is fundamentally my inspiration, and it is strongly reflected in my subject matter.” Floyd Elzinga His pinecone...

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Floats and Feathers 2/12
Floats and Feathers 2/12

Floats and Feathers 2/12

By Kevin Box

Located in Napa, CA

“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Stainless Steel

Bull Bronze Sculpture Animal Small Farmlife

Bull Bronze Sculpture Animal Small Farmlife

By Theo Mackaay

Located in Utrecht, NL

Bull Bronze Sculpture Animal Small Farmlife Theo Mackaay (1950) Mackaay works with recognizable shape:: women, men and animals, with a pointer at the primal form. Archetypal motive...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Femme Fatale – Contemporary Alligator-Female Hybrid Sculpture by Zura
Femme Fatale – Contemporary Alligator-Female Hybrid Sculpture by Zura

Femme Fatale – Contemporary Alligator-Female Hybrid Sculpture by Zura

By Zura

Located in Brooklyn, NY

In Femme Fatale, Zura fuses the primal and the elegant: an alligator’s head—ancient, unblinking, and impervious—crowns a refined female body. The work plays with the archetype of the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

The broken ear Wabé Contemporary sculpture art color joy fun character dream
The broken ear Wabé Contemporary sculpture art color joy fun character dream

The broken ear Wabé Contemporary sculpture art color joy fun character dream

By Wabé

Located in Paris, FR

Unique colourful papier mâché sculpture, hand-painted and varnished Hand-signed by the artist « Free and strong! This is what I am, free with my shapes, strong with my colors, bo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Papier Mâché

Hope Sings 6/49

Hope Sings 6/49

By Lorri Acott

Located in Napa, CA

Lorri Acott is a critically acclaimed American sculptor whose impressionistic figurative works are held in prominent private and public collections throughout the United States and ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Stunning Iron Sculpture - Two Buttercups and a moth
Stunning Iron Sculpture - Two Buttercups and a moth

Stunning Iron Sculpture - Two Buttercups and a moth

By Ivan Zanoni

Located in Milan, IT

The yellow, shiny and vibrant petals of buttercups are memories of childhood time and radiate joy, happiness and friendship. Ivan Zanoni hand-forges them as miniature suns with their...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Large Bronze Head Grand Tour Pseudo-Seneca Naples late 18th century
Large Bronze Head Grand Tour Pseudo-Seneca Naples late 18th century

Large Bronze Head Grand Tour Pseudo-Seneca Naples late 18th century

Located in Pistoia, IT

Large bronze head from the Grand Tour period depicting Pseudo-Seneca, Italian workshop, late 18th to early 19th century. The Pseudo-Seneca is a Roman bronze head from the late 1s...

Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

The Laughers (Version 1)
The Laughers (Version 1)

The Laughers (Version 1)

By Dirk Staschke 1

Located in New Orleans, LA

Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ceramics. His current body of work explores the s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Cornucopia
Cornucopia

Cornucopia

By Erté

Located in Greenwich, CT

Cornucopia pays homage to the great goddesses of abundance and fortune, with a modern twist – rather than showing the bounty of the earth overflowing from the horn, this Cornucopia o...

Category

20th Century Art Deco Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Tucan Majestuoso -  Toucan Alebrije - Mexican Folk Art  Cactus Fine Art
Tucan Majestuoso -  Toucan Alebrije - Mexican Folk Art  Cactus Fine Art

Tucan Majestuoso - Toucan Alebrije - Mexican Folk Art Cactus Fine Art

Located in Jesus del Monte, MX

Tucan Majestuoso - Toucan Alebrije This Mexican Tucan - Toucan Alebrije made with Copal wood, wood carving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with acrylic paintings with Zapotec symbols. At Cactus Fine Art...

Category

2010s Folk Art Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Gandharan Frieze with Scenes from the Life of Buddha
Gandharan Frieze with Scenes from the Life of Buddha

Gandharan Frieze with Scenes from the Life of Buddha

Located in Palm Desert, CA

A schist stone carving from 2nd/3rd Century Gandhara depicting scenes from the life of Buddha. Provenance: Spink and Sons LTD, 1985.

Category

15th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Wall sculpture, hand-carved lion, eucalyptus and chainsaw, natural wood
Wall sculpture, hand-carved lion, eucalyptus and chainsaw, natural wood

Wall sculpture, hand-carved lion, eucalyptus and chainsaw, natural wood

By Alvaro de la Vega

Located in Carballo, ES

Hand-carved eucalyptus wood sculpture by the artist Álvaro de la Vega (1954, Lugo, Spain) in 20006. It is part of a series of sculptures of bodies and animals made with chisel and ha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Contemporary Bronze sculpture Ancient Greek Myth 'The Three Fates', figurative
Contemporary Bronze sculpture Ancient Greek Myth 'The Three Fates', figurative

Contemporary Bronze sculpture Ancient Greek Myth 'The Three Fates', figurative

By Carl Payne

Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

The Three Fates is a stunning contemporary bronze sculpture by Carl Payne, inspired by the ancient Greek mythological figures who were believed to control the destiny of all mortals....

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

El Bien contra el Mal / Ceramics Mexican Folk Art Clay
El Bien contra el Mal / Ceramics Mexican Folk Art Clay

El Bien contra el Mal / Ceramics Mexican Folk Art Clay

By Enedina Vasquez Cruz

Located in Jesus del Monte, MX

Artisan: Enedina Vaszquez Cruz MASTERPIECE Made with natural clay. Hand-modeled technique and cooked in a wood-fired oven.  - Dimensions: 19" x 19" x 13" in or 47 x 49 x 34 cm - ...

Category

2010s Folk Art Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Madame Butterfly Bronze Sculpture Story Tragedy Opera Female Nude Figure
Madame Butterfly Bronze Sculpture Story Tragedy Opera Female Nude Figure

Madame Butterfly Bronze Sculpture Story Tragedy Opera Female Nude Figure

By Erwin Meijer

Located in Utrecht, NL

Madame Butterfly Bronze Sculpture Story Tragedy Opera Female Nude Figure The statues of Erwin Meijer are subtle with a recognizable, personal handwriting. They breathe the atmosphere...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Dancer with a tambourine
Dancer with a tambourine

Dancer with a tambourine

By Agathon Léonard

Located in PARIS, FR

"Dancer with a tambourine" by Agathon LÉONARD (1841–1923) Rare sculpture made in gilded bronze Signed on the dress "A. Léonard Sclp" Cast by Susse Frères (with founder stamp) Stamped with a foundry reference letter "M" France circa 1905 height 57 cm Biography: Léonard Agathon Van Weydeveldt, said Agathon Léonard (1841-1923) was a sculptor of Belgian origin naturalized French. After studying art at the Lille Academy of Fine Arts and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Agathon Léonard settled in Paris for a long time, where after having exhibited at the Salon of 1868, he joined the Society of French artists in 1887, then to the National Society of Fine Arts in 1897. Very involved in the artistic movement of the Art Nouveau style, he exhibited many pieces (medallions, bronze statuettes and ceramics) finely worked. Following an order from the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, dating from 1898, Agathon Léonard exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris his famous table centerpiece "Game of the scarf" in porcelain biscuit, composed of fifteen statuettes representing dancers with pleated dresses reminiscent of Loïe Fuller's choreographies or Neo-Greek dancers...

Category

Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Portrait of a Man
Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

By Marcel GIMOND

Located in PARIS, FR

Portrait of a Man by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961) Bronze with a very nuanced dark brown patina signed on the neck with the monogram "MG" period cast by "Meroni Radice, cire perdue, Par...

Category

1930s French School Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

America Martin, Woman Seated-Powder Coated Steel-Amber, Figurative Sculpture
America Martin, Woman Seated-Powder Coated Steel-Amber, Figurative Sculpture

America Martin, Woman Seated-Powder Coated Steel-Amber, Figurative Sculpture

By America Martin

Located in Laguna Beach, CA

AMERICA MARTIN "Woman Seated" Powder Coated Steel in Burnt Amber on Carrara Marble Base Size: 19.5 x 11 x 4.5 Inches Edition: 1/1 JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present, Conne...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Steel

Arlequino Bronze Sculpture Fish Animal Water Brown Contemporary  In Stock
Arlequino Bronze Sculpture Fish Animal Water Brown Contemporary  In Stock

Arlequino Bronze Sculpture Fish Animal Water Brown Contemporary In Stock

By Pieter Vanden Daele

Located in Utrecht, NL

Arlequino Bronze Sculpture Fish Animal Water Brown Contemporary In Stock Pieter Vanden Daele was born in Belgium in 1971. He grew up between lakes and the river Scheldt. The river...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Cherry Jell-O" Pop Art Sculpture 20" x 24" x 4" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens
"Cherry Jell-O" Pop Art Sculpture 20" x 24" x 4" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens

"Cherry Jell-O" Pop Art Sculpture 20" x 24" x 4" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens

By Kii Arens

Located in Culver City, CA

"Cherry Jell-O" Sculpture 20" x 24" x 4" inch Edition 1/1 by Kii Arens ABOUT One of the most credible and influential in Los Angeles - the award winning Kii Arens, is a critical dri...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass, Mixed Media

Sculpture Murale Soleil

Sculpture Murale Soleil

Located in PARIS, FR

Soleil wall sculpture by French ceramist Roland Zobel Roland Zobel, a French ceramist born in 1945 in Fort-de-France, is the son of writer Joseph Zobel. He studied at the Beaux-Arts ...

Category

20th Century Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Bill Nebeker

Located in Palm Desert, CA

"Untitled" is a bronze sculpture by Bill Nebeker. Signed on reverse base "Bill Nebeker CA 6/30". The full size is 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Bill Nebeker is an American artist ...

Category

Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

wall sculpture, hand-carved human bust, raw eucalyptus wood with steel
wall sculpture, hand-carved human bust, raw eucalyptus wood with steel

wall sculpture, hand-carved human bust, raw eucalyptus wood with steel

By Alvaro de la Vega

Located in Carballo, ES

Hand-carved eucalyptus wood sculpture by the artist Álvaro de la Vega (1954, Lugo, Spain) in 20006. It is part of a series of sculptures of bodies and animals made with chisel and ha...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock
Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock

Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock

By Margot Homan

Located in Utrecht, NL

Awareness Bronze Sculpture Nude Figures Mythology In Stock The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculpting, with which ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Early 1900 Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture " a panther on a rock " 19Th
Early 1900 Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture " a panther on a rock " 19Th

Early 1900 Art Deco Terracotta Sculpture " a panther on a rock " 19Th

Located in Gavere, BE

Outstanding sculpture depicting a panther in an attacking position, standing on a rock. The sculpture has a beautiful patina. It displays excellent muscular proportions. Made from ...

Category

1910s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta, Clay

Portrait of Pierre Vérité
Portrait of Pierre Vérité

Portrait of Pierre Vérité

By Marcel GIMOND

Located in PARIS, FR

Portrait of Pierre Vérité by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961) Bronze sculpture with a dark brown patina signed on the neck "M. Gimond" cast by "Bisceglia, cire perdue" (with the foundry st...

Category

1940s French School Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Imagine II
Imagine II

Imagine II

By Cat Sirot

Located in New York, NY

Cat Sirot is a French plastic artist, with a focus on painting and Sculpture. She lives near Paris and works in her Argenteuil Studio. Through her sculptural...

Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Paint, Varnish

Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis
Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis

Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis

Located in London, GB

This remarkably fluid terracotta bozetto was made in preparation for Pietro Pacilli’s most important public commission, a large-scale marble statue of San Camillo de Lellis for the nave of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Expressively modelled, this terracotta sculpture is a rare and significant work made by a major Roman sculptor at a transformative moment of European sculpture. Pacilli began his working life on the great Baroque decorative projects initiated in the seventeenth century, but he found success as a restorer of ancient sculpture working to finish antiquities for a tourist market, becoming an important figure in the emergence of an archaeologically minded Neoclassicism. Pacilli trained Vincenzo Pacetti and provided important decorative work for the Museo Pio-Clementino, at the same time he is recorded restoring some of the most celebrated antiquities excavated and exported during the period. Pacilli was born into a family of Roman craftsmen, his father Carlo was a wood carver, and Pacilli is recorded working with him on the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni Laternao as early as 1735. In 1738 his terracotta model of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife won the first prize in the second class of the sculpture concorso at the Accademia di San Luca, this is particularly notable as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi came third. He worked as a carver and stuccoist completing works for the churches of San Marco and SS. Trinita dei Domeniciani Spagnoli. Pacilli operated as a sculptor and restorer of antiquities from his studio at the top of the Spanish Steps, close to Santa Trinita dei Monti, where he is listed as a potential vendor to the Museo Pio-Clementino in 1770. In 1763 Pacilli completed a silver figure of San Venanzio for the treasury of San Venanzio. He is recorded as Pacetti’s first master and it was evidently through Pacilli that he began to acquire his facility as a restorer of ancient sculpture. Pacilli, at his studio ‘poco prima dell’Arco della Regina alla Trinita dei Monti,’ exercised, what the nineteenth-century scholar, Adolf Michaelis called ‘rejuvenating arts’ on several important pieces of classical sculpture, including in 1760 the group of a Satyr with a Flute for the natural brother of George III, General Wallmoden, Hanovarian minister at Vienna. In 1765, Dallaway and Michaelis record that Pacilli was responsible for the restorations, including the addition of a new head, to the Barberini Venus which he had acquired from Gavin Hamilton. The Venus was then sold to Thomas Jenkins, who in turn passed it on to William Weddell at Newby Hall. In 1767 Pacilli exported a series of ancient busts ‘al naturale’ including portraits of Antinous, Julius Ceaser and Marus Aurelius, also a statue of a Muse and a Venus. As early as 1756 Pacilli seems to have been operating as an antiquarian, helping to disperse the collection of the Villa Borrioni. Pacilli supplied sculpture to notable British collectors, including Charles Townley, who on his first trip to Italy purchased the Palazzo Giustiniani statue of Hecate from Pacilli. Pacilli was involved with the Museo Pio Clementino from its conception, supplying busts of Julius Ceaser and a Roman Woman as well as completing stucco putti surmounting the arms of Pope Bendedict XIV to signal the entrance to the new Museo Critiano. In 1750 Il Diario Ordinario del Chracas announced that Pacilli had begun work on a sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis for St Peter’s. Camillo de Lellis founded his congregation, the Camillians, with their distinctive red felt crosses stitched on black habits in 1591. Having served as a soldier in the Venetian army, Camillo de Lellis became a novitiate of the Capuchin friars, he moved to Rome and established a religious community for the purpose of caring for the sick. In 1586 Pope Sixtus V formerly recognised the Camillians and assigned them to the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome. Camillo de Lellis died in 1614 and was entombed at Santa Maria Maddalena, he was canonised by Benedict XIV on June 26, 1746. It was an occasion that prompted the Camillians to make a number of significant artistic commissions, including two canvases by Pierre Subleyras showing episodes from San Camillo’s life which they presented to Benedict XIV. In 1750 Pacilli was commissioned to fill one of the large niches on the north wall of the nave with a sculpture of San Camillo. The present terracotta bozetto presumably had two important functions, to enable Pacilli to work out his ideas for the finished sculpture and at the same time to show his design to the various commissioning bodies. In this case it would have been Cardinal Alessandro Albani and Monsignor Giovan Francesco Olivieri, the ‘economo’ or treasurer of the fabric of St Peter’s. Previously unrecorded, this terracotta relates to a smaller, less finished model which has recently been identified as being Pacilli’s first idea for his statue of San Camillo. Preserved in Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, the terracotta shows San Camillo with his left hand clutching his vestments to his breast; the pose and action more deliberate and contained than the finished sculpture. In producing the present terracotta Pacilli has expanded and energised the figure. San Camillo is shown with his left hand extended, his head turned to the right, apparently in an attempt to look east down the nave of St Peter’s. The model shows Pacilli experimenting with San Camillo’s costume; prominently on his breast is the red cross of his order, whilst a sense of animation is injected into the figure through the billowing cloak which is pulled across the saint’s projecting right leg. The power of the restrained, axial contrapposto of bent right leg and outstretched left arm, is diminished in the final sculpture where a baroque fussiness is introduced to the drapery. What Pacilli’s terracotta demonstrates, is that he conceived the figure of San Camillo very much in line with the immediate tradition of depicting single figures in St Peter’s; the rhetorical gesture of dynamic saint, arm outstretched, book in hand, head pointed upwards was perhaps borrowed from Camillo Rusconi’s 1733 sculpture of St. Ignatius...

Category

18th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Hutschenreuther Porcelain Figurine "The Challenge" (Blue Heron)
Hutschenreuther Porcelain Figurine "The Challenge" (Blue Heron)

Hutschenreuther Porcelain Figurine "The Challenge" (Blue Heron)

Located in Detroit, MI

The Challenge (Blue Heron) by Gunther Granget Ltd Edition #42/200 for Hutschenreuther Porcelain in Germany. Hand painted in fired. Hutschenreuther is a historic German porcelain man...

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Visions
Visions

Visions

By Tony Dagradi

Located in New Orleans, LA

Medium: Wood, cutouts from books TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his home in...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paper

Artemis Bust /// Jack Graves Greek Mythology Goddess Painting Sculpture Classics
Artemis Bust /// Jack Graves Greek Mythology Goddess Painting Sculpture Classics

Artemis Bust /// Jack Graves Greek Mythology Goddess Painting Sculpture Classics

By Jack Graves III

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Artemis Bust" Series: Sculpture *Signed, titled, and dated by Graves on bottom Year: 2026 Medium: Original Acrylic and Enamel Painte...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Cast Stone, Marble, Enamel

Boxwood sculptures, super polished and carved for contemplation, fluent river
Boxwood sculptures, super polished and carved for contemplation, fluent river

Boxwood sculptures, super polished and carved for contemplation, fluent river

Located in Carballo, ES

This sculpture by the artist Xose Espona is made of boxwood, a highly prized and difficult wood to carve. His technical virtuosity in polishing, shaping, cutting, and bringing out th...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood