Famous Sculptures

Adkins

Humanities

• Venus • Goddess of beauty

and love• Venus = Aphrodite• Medium - Marble

• Antonio Canova• 1804-1812

• David• Medium – Bronze• First freestanding nude male

sculpture made in 1,000 years.• According to the Bible, David, a

small teenage boy with a slingshot killed a massive, fully-armed man named Goliath. He did it with one shot from his slingshot.

• Donatello• 1430-1435

• Ecstasy of Saint Teresa• Artist – Gianlorenzo Bernini• Medium – Marble• Saint Teresa was a nun who

had visions of angels. In one incident, she described the angel as piercing her heart with a spear.

• She later was made a saint by the church.

• Gianlorenzo Bernini• 1645-1652

• The Thinker• Medium – Bronze and

Marble• There are at least 20

casts around the world, one of which is at U of L.

• Auguste Rodin• 1840-1917

• Pieta• Medium – Marble• Mary is holding the

body of Jesus after he has been crucified.

• Located in St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City)

• Michelangelo• 1497-1500

• David• Medium – Marble• 17 feet tall

• Michelangelo• 1501-1504

• Mademoiselle Pogany

• Constantine Brancusi• 1876-1957

• Coquille Baillante

• Jean Arp• 1964-1965

• Column (Model)

• Naum Gabo• 1923

• Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2

• Henry Moore• 1963

• Horizontal Yellow• Alexander Calder• 1972

• The Gates

• Christo• 2005

• L’Homme Qui March I• Alberto Giacometti• Medium: Bronze• Life-Sized• Most expensive

sculpture ever sold – $104.3 million

• Cubi XIX• Medium: Stainless

Steel

• David Smith• 1964

• Venus de Milo• Venus = Aphrodite (the

goddess of love an beauty)• Artist unknown• The arms may have been

broken when it was dragged across rocks to the ship (??)

• Louvre (Paris, France)• 150-100 bc

• Nike of Sahothrace a.k.a

• Winged Victory

• Venus of Willendorf• Stands 4 inches tall• Represents fertility • 30,000-25,000 bc

Chartres Cathedral

Columns

Jean DuBuffet

Monument with Standing Beast

• The Burghers of Calais

• August Rodin• 1866

Part of the East Pediment, Parthenon438-432 B.C.E.

The MediterraneanAristide Maillol1902-5 (Cast 1951)

• Kouros = a representation of a young male from ancient Greece

• This is one of many kouroi.• Kouroi are typically life-

sized.• Artist unknown• 615 B.C.E.

• Samson Slaying a Philistine

• Giovanni Bologna• 1562

The KissAuguste Rodin

Medium: Marble (1889)

The Kiss/Gustav Klimt/Medium: Oil and Gold Leaf (1908)

• Little Dancer of 14 Years• Edgar Degas• Medium: Bronze• 1881

• Monolithic human figures carved out of rock – The figures are called Moai.

• There are 887 Moai figures on Easter Island, and island is located 2,000 west of Chile in the Pacific Ocean.

• The heaviest moai weighs 87 tons.

• (1250-1500)

• Mount Rushmore• George Washington,

Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

• South Dakota• Granite/Mountain

• Lincoln Memorial• Washington, D.C.• Medium - Marble

• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

• Artist: Damien Hirst• Consists of a tiger shark in

formaldehyde• Was reportedly sold for 8

million dollars• The original shark had to be

replaced because of deterioration.

• Twitter Name - @Hirst_Shark

• Puppy• Artist: Jeff Koons• Giant topiary dog

• Tete• Artist: Amedeo Modigliani

(Mrs. Adkins’ favorite artist)• Medium - limestons• One of the most expensive

sculptures ever sold - $52,620,923

Nearly full term with she and Modigliani’s 2nd baby, Jeanne Heberturne (Modigliani’s lover) committed suicide by jumping out of a window. She did this after he died. She was 21. Their daughter was now an orphan. Modigliani died from meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, alcoholism, and drugs.