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Adolfo Wildt, Vir Temporis Acti, 1911. Bronze. “Man of a time gone by.” In 1912 he cut off the limbs and drove a gilded sword into the base; critics saw a warrior, or a slave. A Symbolist reaching for the archaic, and this is the “archaic” he chose.
#sculpture #AdolfoWildt #Symbolism
#sculpture #AdolfoWildt #Symbolism
September 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Adolfo Wildt, Vir Temporis Acti, 1911. Bronze. “Man of a time gone by.” In 1912 he cut off the limbs and drove a gilded sword into the base; critics saw a warrior, or a slave. A Symbolist reaching for the archaic, and this is the “archaic” he chose.
#sculpture #AdolfoWildt #Symbolism
#sculpture #AdolfoWildt #Symbolism
Thomas Houseago, L’Homme Presse, 2010-2011. Raw bronze and iron rebar on the Grand Canal – the walking man from Rodin to Giacometti, recast in fractured industrial materials.
#sculpture #ThomasHouseago #ContemporarySculpture
#sculpture #ThomasHouseago #ContemporarySculpture
June 8, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Thomas Houseago, L’Homme Presse, 2010-2011. Raw bronze and iron rebar on the Grand Canal – the walking man from Rodin to Giacometti, recast in fractured industrial materials.
#sculpture #ThomasHouseago #ContemporarySculpture
#sculpture #ThomasHouseago #ContemporarySculpture
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Jago (Jacopo Cardillo), Pietà, 2021. Carrara marble, the classical subject inverted, a man holds the body, grief stripped of iconography. Carved in Naples, now permanent at the Jago Museum, Rione Sanità.
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
April 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Jago (Jacopo Cardillo), Pietà, 2021. Carrara marble, the classical subject inverted, a man holds the body, grief stripped of iconography. Carved in Naples, now permanent at the Jago Museum, Rione Sanità.
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
Emily Young, Solar Disc, c.2006. Onyx carved to 150cm — one billion years of geological time, polished into light. The stone does what no lens can.
#sculpture #EmilyYoung #sculptor
#sculpture #EmilyYoung #sculptor
April 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Emily Young, Solar Disc, c.2006. Onyx carved to 150cm — one billion years of geological time, polished into light. The stone does what no lens can.
#sculpture #EmilyYoung #sculptor
#sculpture #EmilyYoung #sculptor
Jago (Jacopo Cardillo), Pietà, 2021. Carrara marble, the classical subject inverted, a man holds the body, grief stripped of iconography. Carved in Naples, now permanent at the Jago Museum, Rione Sanità.
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
April 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Jago (Jacopo Cardillo), Pietà, 2021. Carrara marble, the classical subject inverted, a man holds the body, grief stripped of iconography. Carved in Naples, now permanent at the Jago Museum, Rione Sanità.
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
#sculpture #Jago #sculptor
Marino Marini, Angel of the City, 1948. Bronze rider, arms wide, face to the sky, fully present in every sense. Marini’s horse-and-rider series darkens across decades; this one still believes in something.
#sculpture #MarinoMarini #sculptor
#sculpture #MarinoMarini #sculptor
March 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Marino Marini, Angel of the City, 1948. Bronze rider, arms wide, face to the sky, fully present in every sense. Marini’s horse-and-rider series darkens across decades; this one still believes in something.
#sculpture #MarinoMarini #sculptor
#sculpture #MarinoMarini #sculptor
Novello Finotti, Maschera Bianca, 1982. White marble compressed into surrealist form, two faces folded into one. Vatican commissions, Venice Biennale, sixty years carving between Verona and Pietrasanta.
#sculpture #NovelloFinotti #sculptor
#sculpture #NovelloFinotti #sculptor
March 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Novello Finotti, Maschera Bianca, 1982. White marble compressed into surrealist form, two faces folded into one. Vatican commissions, Venice Biennale, sixty years carving between Verona and Pietrasanta.
#sculpture #NovelloFinotti #sculptor
#sculpture #NovelloFinotti #sculptor
Aron Demetz, Senza Titolo (the tainted), 2013. Maplewood carved smooth, then layered with silicon resin like botanical growth consuming classical form. Man and nature as one.
#sculpture #AronDemetz #sculptor
#sculpture #AronDemetz #sculptor
March 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Aron Demetz, Senza Titolo (the tainted), 2013. Maplewood carved smooth, then layered with silicon resin like botanical growth consuming classical form. Man and nature as one.
#sculpture #AronDemetz #sculptor
#sculpture #AronDemetz #sculptor
Nicola Hicks, Grey, 2012. Bronze cast from plaster and straw, every texture preserved. Championed by Elisabeth Frink, collected by Tate.
#sculpture #NicolaHicks #sculptor
#sculpture #NicolaHicks #sculptor
March 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Nicola Hicks, Grey, 2012. Bronze cast from plaster and straw, every texture preserved. Championed by Elisabeth Frink, collected by Tate.
#sculpture #NicolaHicks #sculptor
#sculpture #NicolaHicks #sculptor
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Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.
#sculpture #MariaMartins
#sculpture #MariaMartins
February 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.
#sculpture #MariaMartins
#sculpture #MariaMartins
Kehinde Wiley, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 2022. Bronze from the Archaeology of Silence series. Dreadlocks braided against stone, classical myth in contemporary form. @deyoungmuseum
#sculpture #KehindeWiley #sculptor
#sculpture #KehindeWiley #sculptor
March 4, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Kehinde Wiley, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 2022. Bronze from the Archaeology of Silence series. Dreadlocks braided against stone, classical myth in contemporary form. @deyoungmuseum
#sculpture #KehindeWiley #sculptor
#sculpture #KehindeWiley #sculptor
Barbara Hepworth, marble group, early 1950s. Light dances around and through translucent stone carved thin enough to glow. One figure rough like standing stones, the other polished smooth with a pierced opening.
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
February 26, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Barbara Hepworth, marble group, early 1950s. Light dances around and through translucent stone carved thin enough to glow. One figure rough like standing stones, the other polished smooth with a pierced opening.
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
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Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
February 20, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961. Bronze cast from 1939 plaster, turquoise interior against warm patina. Strings radiating like tension between herself and the Cornish sea.
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
February 22, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961. Bronze cast from 1939 plaster, turquoise interior against warm patina. Strings radiating like tension between herself and the Cornish sea.
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
February 20, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.
#sculpture #MariaMartins
#sculpture #MariaMartins
February 19, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.
#sculpture #MariaMartins
#sculpture #MariaMartins
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622. Carrara marble; Pluto's fingers pressing into yielding flesh. Striking.
#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture
#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture
January 4, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622. Carrara marble; Pluto's fingers pressing into yielding flesh. Striking.
#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture
#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture
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Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
#sculpture #sculptor
#sculpture #sculptor
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
#sculpture #sculptor
#sculpture #sculptor
Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1983. Mahogany carved for tenderness, a Black woman sculptor honoring Black motherhood.
#sculpture #ElizabethCatlett
#sculpture #ElizabethCatlett
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1983. Mahogany carved for tenderness, a Black woman sculptor honoring Black motherhood.
#sculpture #ElizabethCatlett
#sculpture #ElizabethCatlett
Pablo Atchugarry, Untitled, 1999. Carrara marble folded like fabric, carved for translucency. @hollistaggart.bsky.social
#sculpture #CarraraMarble
#sculpture #CarraraMarble
February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Pablo Atchugarry, Untitled, 1999. Carrara marble folded like fabric, carved for translucency. @hollistaggart.bsky.social
#sculpture #CarraraMarble
#sculpture #CarraraMarble
Marcello (Adèle d’Affry), Chef abyssin, c. 1870. Swiss sculptor working in Paris under a male pseudonym. Marble bust with bronze clasp and lapis lazuli, One of only seven women with work at the Musée du Luxembourg in the 19th century.
#sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury
#sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury
February 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Marcello (Adèle d’Affry), Chef abyssin, c. 1870. Swiss sculptor working in Paris under a male pseudonym. Marble bust with bronze clasp and lapis lazuli, One of only seven women with work at the Musée du Luxembourg in the 19th century.
#sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury
#sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury
Rebecca Warren, The Models (b.) and The Models (a.), 2025. Hand-painted bronze on shared plinth. Turner Prize nominee working the surface until permanence holds the marks of making.
@tate.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
@tate.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
February 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Rebecca Warren, The Models (b.) and The Models (a.), 2025. Hand-painted bronze on shared plinth. Turner Prize nominee working the surface until permanence holds the marks of making.
@tate.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
@tate.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
#sculpture #sculptor
#sculpture #sculptor
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
#sculpture #sculptor
#sculpture #sculptor
Belvedere Torso, Apollonius of Athens, 1st century BC. Fragment of heroic marble that Michelangelo refused to restore—the incomplete form already perfect. Seated power that shaped Renaissance and modern sculpture.
#sculpture #sculptor
#sculpture #sculptor
February 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Belvedere Torso, Apollonius of Athens, 1st century BC. Fragment of heroic marble that Michelangelo refused to restore—the incomplete form already perfect. Seated power that shaped Renaissance and modern sculpture.
#sculpture #sculptor
#sculpture #sculptor
Farnese Hercules, Roman copy after Lysippus, c. 216 AD. Exhausted hands gripping the apples of the Hesperides behind his back: the hero’s labor complete, strength to weariness.
Monumental marble that shaped outdoor sculpture for centuries.
@seattleartmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
Monumental marble that shaped outdoor sculpture for centuries.
@seattleartmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
February 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Farnese Hercules, Roman copy after Lysippus, c. 216 AD. Exhausted hands gripping the apples of the Hesperides behind his back: the hero’s labor complete, strength to weariness.
Monumental marble that shaped outdoor sculpture for centuries.
@seattleartmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
Monumental marble that shaped outdoor sculpture for centuries.
@seattleartmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor