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Roman Copies of Greek Statues
In the late fourth century B.C., the Romans initiated a policy of expansion that in 300 years made them the masters of the Mediterranean world. Impressed by the wealth, culture, and beauty of the Greek cities, victorious generals returned to Rome with booty that included works of art in all media. Soon, educated and wealthy Romans desired works of art that evoked Greek culture. To meet this demand, Greek and Roman artists created marble and bronze copies of the famous Greek statues. Molds taken from the original sculptures were used to make plaster casts that could be shipped to workshops anywhere in the Roman empire, where they were then replicated in marble or bronze. Artists used hollow plaster casts to produce bronze replicas. Solid plaster casts with numerous points of measurement were used for marble copies. Since copies in marble lack the tensile strength of bronze, they required struts or supports, which were often carved in the form of tree trunks, figures, or other kinds of images.
Roman Copies of Greek Statues | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art molds taken from the original sculptures were used to make plaster casts that could be shipped to workshops anywhere in the roman empire, where they were then replicated in marble or bronze. artists used hollow plaster casts to produce bronze replicas. solid plaster casts with numerous points of measurement were used for marble copies. since copies in marble lack the tensile strength of bronze, they required struts or supports, which were often carved in the form of tree trunks, figures, or other kinds of images.
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Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of A polychromy of roman marble sculpture... column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), ca. 350–320 b.c.; red-figure attributed to the group of boston 00.348 greek, south italian, apulian terracotta h. 20 1/4 in. (
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/prms/hd_prms.htm [1037 words]
National Gallery of Art, NGA - Marble Sculpture from France tour: marble sculpture from france overview « back to gallery the works in the east sculpture hall span some 250 years of french history, from before the birth of louis xiv to the second empire. during those years,
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggsculpt/ggsculpt-over2.html [456 words]
National Gallery of Art, NGA - Marble Sculpture from France tour: marble sculpture from france overview « back to gallery the works in the east sculpture hall span some 250 years of french history, from before the birth of louis xiv to the second empire. during those years,
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggsculpt/ggsculpt-over1.html [456 words]
The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480–323 B.C.) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan M polykleitos of argos was particularly famous for formulating a system of proportions that achieved this artistic effect and allowed others to reproduce it. his treatise, the canon, is now lost, but one of his most important sculptural works, the diadoumenos, survives in numerous ancient marble copies of the bronze original ( 32.11.2 ). bronze, valued for its tensile strength and lustrous beauty, became the preferred medium for freestanding statuary, although very few bronze originals of the fifth century b.c.
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Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art jean-antoine houdon (1741–1828)... portrait bust of denis diderot (1713–1784), 18th century (signed and dated 1773) jean-antoine houdon (french, 1741–1828) french (paris) marble h. of bust 15 3/4 in. (40 cm), h. of base 4 11/16 in. (11.8 cm) gift of mr. and mrs. charles wrightsman, 1974 (1974.291) ... louise brongniart (1772–1845), 18th century (after a model of 1777)
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/hd_jahd.htm [2553 words]
Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metr 11.8–.17) ... statuette of a standing girl, ca. 300 b.c. greek, attic terracotta h. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm) rogers fund, 1907 (07.286.31) ... head of a ptolemaic queen, hellenistic, ca. 270–250 b.c. greek marble h. 15 in. (38.1 cm) purchase, lila acheson wallace gift, the bothmer purchase fund, malcolm hewitt wiener, the concordia foundation and christo g. bastis gifts and marguerite and frank cosgrove jr.
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