Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

Italian Sculpture

More From This SellerView All
  • Solid Bronze Antinous Sculpture
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Anonymous. Antinous: Study I (Cast Bronze). Solid bronze of Antinous, Favorite of Hadrian 117-138 AD. A 20th Century sculpture. The young boy's exceptiona...
    Category

    Early 20th Century Italian Expressionist Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Bronze

  • Abstract Bronze Sculpture, France, 1930s
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Beautiful abstract bronze sculpture. France, 1930s,
    Category

    Mid-20th Century French Expressionist Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Bronze

  • Expressionist Bronze Sculpture, France, 1930s
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Beautiful and unique Expressionist bronze sculpture, on marble base. France, 1930s.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century French Expressionist Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Bronze

  • Figurative Sculpture by T. Horowitz, 1952
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Beautiful clay sculpture on wood base. Signed T. Horowitz on side, with THO 1952 label on the wood base.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Clay, Wood

  • Abstract Sculpture by Alwy Visschedyk
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Beautiful abstract wood sculpture by Alwy Visschedyk, hand-signed. American, 1994.
    Category

    1990s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Wood

  • Abstract Bronze Sculpture, France, 1940s
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    Rare and unique bronze sculpture, on custom lucite base. France, 1940s.
    Category

    Mid-20th Century French Expressionist Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Bronze

You May Also Like
  • Italian Ancient Marble Sculpture Fountain, Late 16th Century
    Located in Milano, IT
    Sea monster Carrara marble mouth fountain Italy, late 16th century It measures 13.8 x 31.5 x 18.9 in (35 x 80 x 48 cm) State of conservation: some small evident gaps and widespread signs of wear due to outdoor exposure. The gray marks crossing it do not come from restoration, but are rather the natural veins of the marble. This work has some morphological characteristics typically associated with the iconography of the sea monster: an elongated muzzle, sharp teeth, protruding eyes, elongated ears, and a coiled serpent's tail. An in-depth series of studies on artistic depictions of the sea monster attempted to verify how this symbol evolved in antiquity in the European and Mediterranean contexts and how it gradually changed its image and function over time. The iconography itself is mutable and imaginative and its history is rich with cultural and artistic exchange, as well as the overlapping of ideas. This occurred so much that it is difficult to accurately pinpoint the "types" that satisfactorily represent its various developments. However, we can try to summarize the main figures, starting from the biblical Leviathan and the marine creature that swallowed Jonah (in the Christian version, this figure was to become a whale or a "big fish", the “ketos mega”, translation of the Hebrew “dag gadol”). Other specimens ranged from the dragons mentioned in the Iliad (which were winged and had legs) to "ketos” (also from Greek mythology), the terrifying being from whose Latinized name (“cetus”) derives the word "cetacean". See J. Boardman, “Very Like a Whale” - Classical Sea Monsters, in Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, in Papers presented in Honor of Edith Porada, Mainz am Rhein 1987, pp. 73-84). In Italy the monster underwent yet further variations: it can be found in Etruscan art on the front of some sarcophagi representing the companion of souls, while among the Romans we find the “Pistrice” (cited by Plinio in Naturalis Historia PLIN., Nat., II 9, 8 and by Virgilio in Eneide: VERG., Aen., III, 427), which appeared in the shape of a stylized hippocampus or a very large monstrous cetacean and evolved into a hideous being with a dragon's head and long webbed fins. During the Middle Ages, the sea monster was the object of new transformations: at this time, it is often winged, the head is stretched like a crocodile, the front legs are often very sharp fins - sometimes real paws - until the image merges with dragons, the typical figures of medieval visionary spirituality widely found throughout Europe (on this topic and much more, see: Baltrušaitis, J., Il Medioevo fantastico. Antichità ed esotismi nell’arte gotica, Gli Adelphi 1997). In Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries, the revival of classicism - representative of the humanistic and Renaissance periods - led to a different reading of these "creatures". Indeed, the sea monster was also to find widespread use as an isolated decorative motif, especially in numerous fountains and sculptures where dolphins or sea monsters were used as a characterizing element linked to water (on this theme see: Chet Van Duzer, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, London, The British library, 2013). From the morphological point of view, the "sea monsters" of this period are mostly depicted as hybrid figures, in which the body of a mythological or real being (a hippocampus, a sea snake, a dolphin), is joined to a head with a rather indistinct appearance. It was usually characterized by large upright ears, an elongated snout, sharp teeth and globular, protruding eyes; a complex and indefinite figure, both from the symbolic point of view and from that of its genesis. The work we are examining is placed as a cross between the medieval sea serpent and the Renaissance dolphin, with stylistic features which recall the snake as often used in heraldry (such as the "snake" depicted in the coat of arms of the Visconti - the lords and then dukes of Milan between 1277 and 1447 - and which, for some, may be derived from the representations of the “Pistrice” that swallowed Jonah). In the search for sources, Renaissance cartography and in particular woodcuts should not be neglected. See for example the monsters of Olaus Magnus, from the editions of the “Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus” (“History of the peoples of the north”) and the natural histories of Conrad Gesner, Ulisse...
    Category

    Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Animal Sculptures

    Materials

    Carrara Marble

  • Nude Male Bronze Sculpture Fountain
    Located in Malibu, CA
    Bronze male sculpture signed. Fonderia Giorgio Sommer Calabritto Napoli Thomas, sculptor, lived and worked in the Naples area, and especially on Capri, from 1889 to 1906. Given this ...
    Category

    20th Century Italian Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Carrara Marble, Bronze

    Nude Male Bronze Sculpture Fountain
    $13,297 Sale Price
    29% Off
  • Large Patinated Bronze Fountain with Heron Sculptures
    Located in London, GB
    This wonderful patinated bronze work is designed to function as both a water fountain and a superb piece of sculpture. The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting. The piece takes the form of two herons...
    Category

    20th Century French Anglo-Japanese Fountains

    Materials

    Bronze

  • Architectural Ceramic Water Fountains Sculptures Bronze Glazed 1960 Mobach
    By Mobach
    Located in London, GB
    The sculptural head shaped water features hand-turned in ceramic, produced by Mobach in Utrecht during the 1960's. Mobach produced this unique mat bronze lustre glaze has a result of...
    Category

    Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

    Materials

    Ceramic

  • 1990s French Natural Terracotta Lion w/ Shield Garden Sculpture
    Located in Marbella, ES
    1990s French natural terracotta lion with shield garden sculpture.     
    Category

    Late 20th Century French Animal Sculptures

    Materials

    Terracotta

  • Cast Iron Fountain Sculpture "Boy with Goose" Signed Antoine Durenne Fonderie
    By A. Durenne
    Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
    Cast iron fountain sculpture "Boethus Boy with goose" signed Antoine Durenne Fonderie, France, late 19th century. Green marble pedestal dimensions: 95 ...
    Category

    Antique Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures

    Materials

    Iron

Recently Viewed

View All