Tag: bronze

Adam (1880-1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…

Eve (1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…

L’Âge d’airain (1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…

Claude ‘Coco’ Renoir (1908)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Claude ‘Coco’ Renoir 1908 Bronze, 26.4 x 20.4 x 19.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Renoir, Claude (1901-1969)

Medal of Cosimo de’ Medici as Pater Patriae (1465-1469)

Florentine School Medal of Cosimo de’ Medici as Pater Patriae c.1465–1469 Bronze, diameter 7.34 cm Various locations Reverse: Florence Holding an Orb and Triple Olive Branch Compare: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto d’uomo con medaglia di Cosimo c.1475 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze  …