From the Latin word sculpere meaning to carveIt is the art of carving

Other ways of Sculpting:Casting-is the process involved in producing bronze sculpturesModelling-is the process involved when clay or claylike substances are used as mediums.Assembling-it includes collage.Constructing materials into figures or forms

FOREIGN SCULPTORS

BERNINI, GIOVANNI LORENZO

Most versatile of Baroque artists.

Produce the famous “Ecstasy of St. Theresa”

located at Capella Cornaro, St. Maria Della Victoria in

Rome.

“Ecstasy of St. Theresa”

“Louis XIV”

“ Death of Lodovica Albertoni”

BERNINI, PIETRO

“Fontana della Barcaccia”

“St. Martin Dividing His Cloak”

BUONARROTI SIMONI, MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO

Italian Renaissance painter

sculptor

architect

poet

engineer

Best documented artist of

16th century.

“Pieta”

“David”

CANOVA, ANTONIO

Italian sculptor

Became famous for his marble sculptures that

delicately rendered nude flesh.

Born in Possagno

“Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss”(1787-1793)

“Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa (1801)”

CELLINI, BENVENUTO

Italian goldsmith

painter

sculptor

soldier

Musician of the Renaissance

Born in Florence, Italy

He worked under several

employers.

Arrested and imprisoned several times for different offenses (killing, embezzlement).

“Bust of the Duke of Mantua”

“Crucifixion”

“Nymph of Fountainebleau”

“Ganymede”

“Bust of Cosimo”

DA VINCI, LEONARDO DI SER PIERO

Born in Tucsan town of Vinci

Leornardo de ser Piero da Vinci

“Leornardo, son of (Mes) ser Piero from Vinci”

“ Vitruvian Man”

“ The Last Supper”

“Mona Lisa”

DONATELLO

Short form of Donato di

Florence

Known for his basso

rilievo (bas relief)

He received his early artistic training in a goldsmith’s

workshop and later in Lorenzo Ghiberti’s studio

Donatello’s sculptures are considered as

supreme expressions of

spirit of this era in sculpture

“St. Mark”

“St. George and the Dragon”

“St. Louis of Toulouse”

“Beardless Prophet”

“Sacrifice of Isaac”

“Jeremiah”

“Pazzi Madonna”

GHIBERTI, LORENZO

Born in Florence

Italian artist of the early Renaissance

Best known for works in

sculpture and metal-

working

“Gates of Paradise”

“Jacob and Esau”

“The Three Graces”

GIACOMETTI, ALBERTO

Born in Borgonovo

moved to Geneva to attend he School of

Fine Arts

also to Paris to train under the sculptor

Antoine Bourdelle, an associate of Auguste

Rodin

“Woman with Her Throat Cut”

“Three Men Walking III”

“Woman of Venice II”

MOORE, HENRY S.

English artist and sculptor

Born in the Yorkshire town of

Castleford

Became well-known for his

large-scale abstract cast bronze and

carved marble sculptures.

“Reclining Figure”

“Knife Edge”

PHIDIAS

One of the sculptors of the Golden

Age of Greece and the Chief

sculptor of the Parthenon

PRAXITELES

another sculptor of the Golden

Age of Greece

A pupil of Phidias

“Hermes with the Infant Dionysus”

PUGET, PIERRE

Puget was a

Frenchman

Training under

Bernini

“The Victorious Alexander”

RODIN, FRANCOIS AUGUSTE RENE

French sculptor of his time

He possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply

pocketed surface in clay

“The Gates of Hell”

“Andromeda”

“Bacchus in the Vat”

“Balzac”

“Torso of a Man”

EXAMPLES OF SCULPTURE

The bronze-and-granite Rizal monument is among the most

famous sculptural landmarks in the country. It is almost protocol for

visiting dignitaries to lay a wreath at the monument. Located on the

monument is not merely the statue of the national hero, but also his

remains.

On September 28, 1901, the United States Philippine Commission approved

Act No. 243, which would erect a monument in Luneta to commemorate

the memory of José Rizal, Philippine patriot, writer and poet.The committee formed by the act held an international

design competition between 1905–1907 and invited sculptors from Europe and the United States to submit entries

with an estimated cost of ₱100,000 using local materials.

Swiss sculptor Richard Kissling, the man who designed the Rizal Monument was born on April 14,

1848 Wolfwil in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland.

symbolizing freedom throughout the

world.

Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to

design a sculpture with the year 1876

St. Theresa was begun in 1647 and was completed by 1652. The sculpture itself is located in the Cornaro chapel. It is located on the chapel’s central wall in a

rectangular niche. Theresa looks almost enclosed or trapped by

the columns and recessed niche she is in. This was intentional

because of the fact that Theresa herself was such a controversial woman that she looks enclosed

and controlled.

The church was afraid that because Theresa could be considered subversive that

people would not take away the meaning they wanted to convey.

As mentioned before this was during the Counter Reformation

and because she was so controversial their need

something to show that while she remains a figure who can

emotionally move people she is also controlled by the church.

is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary

 cradling the dead body of Jesus

A famous example by Michelangelo is located in St. Peter's Basilica in

the Vatican City