Archiv für die Kategorie ‘sculpture’

0128 Anne Ring Petersen, American Connections: The early works of Thomas Bang

The early works of the Danish artist Thomas Bang were profoundly shaped by the contemporary movements in American art of the 1960s and 1970s when sculpture became a hotbed of expansive experiments […]

0101 Fabien Benuzzi, Committenze europee di scultura veneziana nel Settecento. Una panoramica e alcune ipotesi di lavoro

Research on the European success of Venetian art during the 18th century has above all examined the activity of the painters. This paper analyzes the works of Venetian sculptors through some important case studies. […]

0099 J. Pedro Lorente, Monuments devoted to artists in public spaces around museums: A nineteenth-century strategy to enhance the urban space of art districts

Monuments to kings or military heroes have always been positioned in main squares and avenues, whilst those erected to famous cultural figures were a novelty introduced […]

0091 Júlia Papp, John Brampton Philpot’s photographs of fictile ivory in the Hungarian National Museum

In the Archeological Archives of the Hungarian National Museum you can find a series of photographs depicting fictile ivory. Made up of 265 items, the series were produced by John Brampton Philpot […]

0087 Matthew Craske, Model Making and Anti-Competitive Practices in the Late Eighteenth-Century London Sculpture Trade

This article concerns the generation of anti-competitive practices, and the associated discontents, that rose to the fore in the London sculpture trade in the late eighteenth century (1770-1799). It charts the […]