196
Dibyendu Banerjee
22/07/2023
The veiled Christ, a life-sized marble statue created by Giuseppe Sammartino, is considered a masterpiece of 18th century sculpture.
280
Dibyendu Banerjee
27/05/2023
Moses was completed by Michelangelo in 1545 and was installed in San Pietro in Vincoli, instead of in St. Peters Basilica as planned originally.
328
Dibyendu Banerjee
31/03/2023
Night, a marble sculpture created by Michelangelo between the years 1526 and 1531, is located in the Sagrestia Nuova, a part of the Basilica di San Lorenzo ...
553
Dibyendu Banerjee
06/02/2023
In his work Soaked Bathsheba, Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, depicted her as a young woman with a beautiful sexy body in a long wet dress.
696
Dibyendu Banerjee
12/12/2022
The legend of Kópakonan or the Seal Woman is one of the best-known folktales in the Faroe Islands, a self-governing archipelago, is located between Iceland ...
1818
Dibyendu Banerjee
11/05/2021
The Reclining Venus, a lively sculpture by Lorenzo Bartolini, was created after the famous painting, titled The Venus of Urbino, by the Italian painter Titian.
823
Dibyendu Banerjee
24/03/2021
Here is the graceful and fiery Cleopatra, the wonderful and flaming Egyptian queen, created by the Italian sculptor Antonio Balzico in the 1870s,
1343
Dibyendu Banerjee
27/02/2021
Once upon a time, the medieval residents of Coventry in England suffering immensely beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes pleaded in vain to their powerful l ...
1502
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/02/2021
The Sleeping Ariadne, housed in the Vatican Museums, is a Roman Hadrianic copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Pergamon School of the 2nd century.
1453
Dibyendu Banerjee
09/01/2021
Regarded as the largest equestrian sculpture in the world, the magnificent art piece titled The Mustangs of Las Colinas, created by the reputed Kenyan sculp ...
1357
Dibyendu Banerjee
09/12/2020
Located in the wilderness of a hot and barren landscape and far away from the nearest locality, the Hand of the Desert has no barriers or fences.
1332
Dibyendu Banerjee
25/11/2020
Known as Pi-Chacan in the native Peruvian Quechuan language, the huge sculpture of a giant vagina, created by Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara, was insta ...
732
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/11/2020
Commonly called the Bean for its distinctive kidney-bean shape and silver surfer polish, the Cloud Gate located in the Millennium Park is arguably the most ...
1911
Dibyendu Banerjee
19/10/2020
The 20 feet long and 8 feet high evocative sculpture called Freedom is a spontaneous manifesto about the struggle of mankind for the achievement of freedom.
960
Dibyendu Banerjee
04/10/2020
Famous for its street architecture, Rundle Mall in Adelaide contains ‘A Day Out’, a bronze sculpture of a group of life-sized pigs rooting around a rubbish bin.
2639
Dibyendu Banerjee
21/09/2020
The Double Statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta, exhibited in the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, is probably the most photographed sculpture in the museum.
1489
Dibyendu Banerjee
03/09/2020
A lighted sculpture entitled Absorbed by Light displayed was outside the Hermitage Amsterdam Museum, during the annual light festival of 2018-2019.
1435
Dibyendu Banerjee
19/08/2020
Just like an awesome creature escaped from a nightmare, the sculpture of a giant spider, named Mamon, was created by the French artist Louise Bourgeois.
1835
Dibyendu Banerjee
06/08/2020
Man at work is the unusual bronze statue in the Old Town of Bratislava that depicts the torso of a man, who peeks his head from underneath a manhole cover.
1741
Dibyendu Banerjee
26/07/2020
Expansion is the name of the masterpiece of the American sculptor Paige Bradley, whose work is said to be focused on tensions and liberation.
1342
Dibyendu Banerjee
09/07/2020
Created by the French artist Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol, the monumental nude depicted in L’Air, seems to float in space, though it is made of lead.
3062
Dibyendu Banerjee
22/06/2020
The composite sculpture of Apollo served by the Nymphs, created by François Girardon, is the most purely classical work in French seventeenth-century sculpture.
2394
Dibyendu Banerjee
08/06/2020
The enchanting mythological story of the Pygmalion and Galatea, the story about a Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture, was turned into ...
1463
Dibyendu Banerjee
19/05/2020
Siesta is a Spanish word that stands for a nap or a short sleep, usually taken after the midday meal, which is rather a common traditional practice in some ...
1260
Dibyendu Banerjee
06/05/2020
La Nymph Salmacis was created by the internationally renowned sculptor Giuseppe-Francesco Bosio, better known as François-Joseph Bosio, 250 years ago.
3611
Dibyendu Banerjee
23/04/2020
In his exotic sculpture Satyr and Bacchante, the French sculptor Jean-Jacques Pradier depicted the attempted rape of bacchantes by a satyr.
2883
Dibyendu Banerjee
09/04/2020
A statue titled ‘Woman Bitten by a Snake’, commissioned by the industrialist Alfred Mosselme and created by the French sculptor Auguste Clesinge
2385
Dibyendu Banerjee
25/03/2020
Created by the master Italian sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) between 1846 and 1851, the first version of his Nymph with a scorpion was exhibited in ...
1587
Dibyendu Banerjee
11/03/2020
The composition of the sculpture Diane d’Anet or Diana with a Stag, depicting a semi-reclining Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, accompanied by her two ...
1676
Dibyendu Banerjee
25/02/2020
La Toilette d’Atlanta, created by Jean-Jacques Pradier, is rated by some art critics as the most complete work of art of the entire 1850-1851.
2126
Dibyendu Banerjee
11/02/2020
The Aphrodite of Knidos, created by Praxiteles between 360 and 330 BC was the first full-sized naked female sculpture in Greek history.
2925
Dibyendu Banerjee
25/01/2020
Phryne was an ancient Greek courtesan from the fourth century BC, born in Thespiae (Boeotia), but spent most of her life in Athens. She was named Mnesarete.
2066
Dibyendu Banerjee
11/01/2020
Aphrodite of Milos, widely known as Venus de Milo, is one of the most famous examples of ancient Greek sculpture, which is recognizable by its missing arms.
2001
Dibyendu Banerjee
27/12/2019
Undisputedly considered as one of the most iconic works in the history of art, Michelangelo’s David was originally a part of a larger project.
2499
Dibyendu Banerjee
14/12/2019
It is impossible for anybody to enter St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, without noticing the Pieta, perhaps the most poetic and marvellous sculpture ever created.
2007
Dibyendu Banerjee
29/11/2019
Beata Ludovica in Ecstasy, the last full life figure of Ludovica, created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is set above the altar of the Altieri ...
2498
Dibyendu Banerjee
14/11/2019
Venus Victrix is a semi-nude reclining life-size sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova, which was commissioned by Camillo Borghese
2845
Dibyendu Banerjee
02/11/2019
The Flemish sculptor Giambologna completed the marble group of the Heracles and the Centaur Nessus in 1599. In mythology, Heracles was the son of Zeus and A ...
2684
Dibyendu Banerjee
20/10/2019
A Hermaphrodite is an unusual word for an unusual condition that happens to a small number of person or animal, who have the reproductive organs of both men ...
3177
Dibyendu Banerjee
07/10/2019
The Dying Gaul or the Dying Galatian, an ancient Romanian depiction of a defeated Celtic warrior, was probably unearthed in a Roman garden.
1877
Dibyendu Banerjee
23/09/2019
In Greek mythology Princess Andromeda was the daughter of King Cepheus of Aethiopia and Queen Cassiopeia. The queen said that her daughter was beautiful.
1749
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/09/2019
Neptune and Triton, the marble sculpture created by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1622-23, depicts the life-size figure of Neptune
3494
Dibyendu Banerjee
26/08/2019
The monumental statue of Laocoon and His Sons depicts the horrible scene of sufferings of the helpless Trojan priest and his two sons, based on Virgil’s Aeneid.
3173
Dibyendu Banerjee
12/08/2019
The Rape of the Sabine Woman, created by Giambologna, a Flemish sculptor based in Italy, is one of the most recognised works of sixteenth-century Italian art.
3256
Dibyendu Banerjee
29/07/2019
The splendid marble sculpture of ‘Ugolino and His Sons’, was created by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French sculptor and painter, born on 11 May 1827
2923
Dibyendu Banerjee
15/07/2019
The Gates of Hell, a colossal double door sculpture that stands at a towering 20 feet, is the master creation of the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
1303
Dibyendu Banerjee
03/07/2019
Like the immortal Kiss, the Three Shades is also a single part of Auguste Rodin’s huge compositional piece, known as the Gates of Hell.
1563
Dibyendu Banerjee
19/06/2019
Created by Auguste Rodin and simply known as the Kiss, the exquisite marble sculpture of two naked lovers fused with passion, is a representation of love.
1792
Dibyendu Banerjee
06/06/2019
The Thinker is perhaps universally known as a master creation of the renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The Gates of Hell was on the 16th century long.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
24/05/2019
Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini created his masterpiece 'Ecstasy of Saint Teresa', for the Cornaro Chapel in Rome's Santa Maria della Vittoria.
3703
Dibyendu Banerjee
10/05/2019
A sculpture of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros, exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, in Greece, is estimated to be carved at about 100 BC.
2708
Dibyendu Banerjee
28/04/2019
Retold by many Hellenistic and Roman authors, the story of the Apollo and his love for the nymph Daphne is originally a story from ancient Greek mythology.
3239
Dibyendu Banerjee
13/04/2019
Sensing a deep problem, Zeus, the king of the gods, intervened and sent Mercury to the Underworld to ask his brother, Hades to return Proserpina.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
01/04/2019
However, that was not the end of the story, but that romantic moment was immortalized by Antonio Canova in his sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupids Kiss.
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Dibyendu Banerjee
20/03/2019
The Three Graces were Aglaia, symbolizing elegance, splendour and brilliance; Thalia, representing youth, beauty and jubilation; while Euphrosyne signifying.
