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Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sculpture. Show all posts
Friday, 6 February 2015

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: The Beaked

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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (Swabia, Germany, 6th February 1736 - Bratislava, Slovakia, 19th August 1783) Today marks the anniversary of Fra...
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Monday, 13 October 2014

"Too athletic...": Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker

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Antonio Canova  (Possagno, Italy, 1st November 1757 - Venice, Italy, 13th October 1822) Self Portrait by Antonia Canova, 1892 Today m...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014

The Scandalous Buttocks of La Frileuse

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Jean-Antoine Houdon (Versailles, France, 25th March 1741 – Paris, France, 15th July 1828) Today marks the anniversary of the death of Jean...
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Thursday, 10 July 2014

Roubiliac's Monument to Handel

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As regular visitors will know, I am a keen enthusiast of paintings from the glorious Georgian era. I am far from an expert but can happily l...
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Sunday, 26 January 2014

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Sculptor

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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (Paris, France, 26th January 1714 – Paris,  France,   20th August 1785) Today we welcome a sculptor to the salo...
Sunday, 1 December 2013

Wax, Business and a Narrow Escape from the Guillotine: Marie Tussaud

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Marie Tussaud (Anna Maria Grosholtz; Strasbourg, France, 1st December 1761 - London, England, 16th April 1850) We seem to have spent ...
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

The Egyptian Adventures of Joseph Bonomi the Younger

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Joseph Bonomi the Younger (London, England, 9th October 1796 – Wimbledon, London,  England, 3rd March 1878)  Joseph Bonomi the Younger ...