Tag Archives: Lorenzo Ghiberti

balzac in tormented bronze: oveheated with emotional excess

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Dave

When is a sculpture not just a sculpture? That it is so intertwined with politics that its initial artistic impulse becomes lost in the quagmire of the partisan. That is what transpired with the sculpture of Honore de Balzac executed … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Auguste Rodin, Baron Hausmann, Christian Krohg, Claude Debussey, Edgar Degas, Edward Streichen, Emile Zola, Henri Chapu, Henri Matisse, Honore de Balzac, Jean Ajalbert, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Louts, Stephane Mallarme, William H. Gass | Leave a comment

BLUE RIBBON BRONZE

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dave

The ancient marvels of bronze casting and sculpture could not be matched by medieval man. But, they were seen by Donatello, the sculptor who., like Ghiberti, bestrides the opening decades of the Renaissance. It was Donatello who created for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alessandro Leopardi, Andrea del Verrocchio, Andrew Butterfield Verrochio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Baum School of Art, Bronze casting, bronze sculpture, Charles C. Dent Memorial Garden, Charles Dent, Church of San Antonio Padua, Da Vinci, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, Equestrian Bronze, Equisearch.com, Felix Fabri, Francois Girardon, Galileo, Garth Herrick, Ghiberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lorenzo di Credi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Marc Gauthier, Marc Gauthier Art Historian, Meijer's Garden, Nina Akamu, Nina Akamu da Vinci, Pietro Tacca, Vasari, Velasquez, Verrocchio | 3 Comments

LET HE WHO CASTS THE FIRST BRONZE

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Dave

The long history of bronze has had many dark ages spaced through it, and the lost sculptures overwhelmingly outnumber the survivals. Among them the bronze Colossus of Rhodes, a wonder of the world, stood a hundred and twenty feet high … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander the Great, Barisanus Sculpture, Bonnano sculptures, bronze sculpture, Celtic Tomb Vix Burgundy, Charlemagne, Church of San Antonio at Padua, Constantine The Great, Dark Ages, Dinanderie, Dinant on the Meuse, Donatello Gattamelata, Donatello Sculpture, Florentine Baptistry, Ghiberti Doors of paradise, Ghiberti Sculpture, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Master of Hildesheim sculpture, Michelangelo, Oderisius Sculptures, Pope paul III, Renier of Huy, Sargon Akkadian King, St. John Lateran, Tell Judeideh | 2 Comments

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balzac in tormented bronze: oveheated with emotional excess

BLUE RIBBON BRONZE

LET HE WHO CASTS THE FIRST BRONZE

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