ANTIQUE MARBLE SCULPTURE

P.O. Box 710

Charleston, IL 61920 USA

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Fine Antique Sculpture from the Ancient World through the 19th Century Grand Tour

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1.  An antique  marble relief of a satyr and nymph.  31 cm H x 18 cm W sculpture, satyr and maiden, relief.jpg (88788 bytes)
2.  An exquisite Greek antique marble statue of  the Crouching Venus, after a  Hellenistic period original.  The author of the prime is unknown, though it has been attributed to Doidalsas of Bithynia  based on a passage in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Book XXXVI, but this is now considered to be a later corruption.  The statue probably represents Venus bathing in the sea, rather than, as is sometimes suggested, the birth of Venus from a seashell, and the type is known at the Venus Pudica...the Modest Venus. sculpture, Venus, crouching.jpg (28183 bytes)
3.  An antique Greek marble bust of Hermes, after Praxiteles (active ca. 375 B.C. - 340 B.C.).  The original full-figure of Hermes and the infant Dionysus is on display at the Olympia Archaeological Museum, Olympia, Greece.  The statue was found, in 1877, during the excavation of the Temple of Hera.  29 cm OAH sculpture, bust of Hermes by Praxiteles, front.jpg (89440 bytes)
4.  A Grand Tour marble souvenir of a child's hand  sculpture, child's hand.jpg (69692 bytes)
5.  An antique marble neoclassical portrait bust of Henry Clay, 1855 sculpture, Clay, 1855, front.jpg (27653 bytes)
6.  An antique alabaster bust of the Athenian orator Demosthenes.  43cm OAH  sculpture, Demosthenes.jpg (45252 bytes)
7.  A monumental antique marble bust of Marcus Junius Brutus (85 B.C.- 42 B.C.), one of the assassins of Gaius Julius Caesar (100 B.C. - 44 B.C.), after Michelangelo (ca. 1540), signed: Boulaire.  The Renaissance original is in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.  95 cm OAH
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8.  A fine antique statuary marble bust of a youth after the so-called Capitoline Antinous, a full-figure statue now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.   The statue was found ca. 1723, probably at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli.  The marble is of a well-known memorial type, owing much to the Greek sculptor Polykleitos (fl. ca. 450 B.C.), and may represent Hermes Psychopompos, the Guide of Souls.  The figure was once thought to be the deified Antinous (ca. 110 A.D. - 130 A.D.), the young companion of the Emperor Hadrian (76 A.D. - 138 A.D.). sculpture_Apollo_Capitoline_Antinous.jpg (48344 bytes)
9.  A high quality antique sculpture bust of the Apollo Belvedere, after the Hellenistic marble statue in the Vatican's Belvedere gallery.  50 cm H sculpture, Apollo Belvedere.jpg (61860 bytes)
10.  An antique hand-carved marble bust of a Satyr.  This exuberant Hellenistic fawn has pointed ears, wears two grape bunches in his hair, and has an animal pelt on his back and left shoulder.  The identical bust is exhibited in the Vatican's Chiaramonti antiquities gallery.  38 cm OAH sculpture, Fawn, Vatican.jpg (55453 bytes)
11.  An antique marble bust of the Emperor Vespasian.  34 cm OAH sculpture, Vespasian.jpg (66336 bytes)
12.  A superb antique Augustan marble bust thought to be either Gaius (20 A.D. - 4 A.D.) or Lucius (17 B.C. - 2 A.D.) Caesar, after a late 1st century B.C. original.  Both of these Roman princes, until their untimely deaths, were the heirs to Octavius Augustus Caesar (63 B.C. - 14 A.D.), their grandfather and adopted father.   For dynastic reasons, the portraiture of the Julio-Claudian princes was mingled with that of Augustus, and this ancient marble bust is often taken to be that of the Augustus, himself.  The prime was found at Ostia and is now on view in the Sala a Croce Greca of  the Vatican Museums. sculpture_Augustan_Prince.jpg (46497 bytes)
13.  An antique neoclassical sculpture rondo relief of Venus in profile, signed: A. Rousseau, 1881. sculpture, Venus, relief, antique marble.jpg (93295 bytes)
14.  An antique neoclassical marble portrait bust in the realistic portrait style of the Roman Republic.  50cm OAH sculpture, neoclassical bust.jpg (51758 bytes)
15.  An antique sculpture bust of the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106 B.C. - 54 B.C.).  The back is signed: L[eone]. Clerici / Roma 1875.  The Duke of Wellington purchased an ancient copy of this Roman Republic portrait bust, in 1816, and it is now on display at Apsley House, the Duke's London home.  32cm OAH.  SOLD sculpture, Cicero.jpg (48349 bytes)
16.  A superb antique marble bust of  Venus Italica, after the neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822).  The prime full statue dates to ca. 1810, and it replaced the ancient  Medici Venus removed from the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, in 1802, by Napoleon.  The head is an idealized portrait of Princess Leopoldine von Esterházy, later von Liechtenstein (1788 - 1846). sculpture, bust, Venus Italica, Canova.jpg (38098 bytes)
17.  An antique marble relief of a putto harvesting wheat sculpture, putto havesting.jpg (39345 bytes)
18.  An antique c. 2nd century marble part-bust of the Greco-Roman God Serapis sculpture, Serapis.jpg (73498 bytes)
19.  An antique neoclassical marble bust of Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), after a clay bust made c. 1821 by the sculptor Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781 - 1841).  The toga has a plaid pattern.  The detail of the carving suggests that this bust came from Chantrey's studio. sculpture, Sir Walter Scott.jpg (52602 bytes)
20.  A very fine antique marble bust of Venus, probably carved c. 1840 and by an American sculptor, after the Medici Venus. sculpture, Venus, American.jpg (53051 bytes)

 

 

 

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