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Bust of "Greek Slave" by Hiram Powers

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  • Sculpture Scipione Tadolini the Greek Slave Second Half of the, 19th Century
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    Located in SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRAT, FR
    Scipione Tadolini was a skilled sculptor whose broad talent covered the neoclassic to the romantic movements. His ancestors from a dynasty of Roman sculptors exerted a profound and lasting influence on the artistic production of the Eternal City. The Greek Slave fully demonstrates his masterly talent and serves as a reminder of antique models and the orientalist influences characterising the second half of the 19th century. Scipione Tadolini graduated from the Roman Academy and worked with his father on a series of celebrated portraits and ecclesiastical sculptures for Roman churches including a bust of Cardinal Giuseppe Alberghini for the Gesù (1847) and portraits of various members of the Cini family for the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle (1844, 1846). Tadolini is also known as the author of a number of large-scale monuments for patrons around the world including an equestrian group of Simon Bolivar for the city of Lima, Peru. One of his best known sculptures is The Greek Slave which appears in his work from the late 1850s forward.The Greek Slave was created in several sizes in two variations: with the figure’s hand either raised to her chest or to her chin. The small number of versions all indicate the sculptor’s careful attention to the human form and passion with exoticism, which can be noticed through the tumbling folds of the present figure's headdress and the finely articulated jewellery...
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  • Patinated Plaster Bust of a Dying Slave, Michelangelo, Cast by Mulaza, ca 1970s
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    Gold patinated bust of a Dying Slave, after the renaissance work by Michelangelo, impressed "Mulaza Zagreb, D/3." Mulaza Zagreb was an artist atelier founded in Zagreb, Croatia i...
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  • 17th Century Wooden Bust of the Greek Poet Homerus
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