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…
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.…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Honoré de Balzac 1891 Terracotta, 23.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Allegoria dei pianeti e dei continenti (Allegory of the Planets and Continents) 1752 Oil on canvas, 185.4 x 139.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The canvas, which is among Tiepolo‘s largest and most dazzling oil…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1905 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 68.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio (Development of a Bottle in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 39.4 x 60.3 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In March 1912 Boccioni wrote, “These days I am obsessed…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Antigrazioso (Antigraceful) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 58.4 × 53.3 × 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this bust of his mother, Cecilia Forlani Boccioni, the artist employs Cubist distortions and fragmentation to undermine conventional…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space) 1913, cast 1950 Bronze, 121.3 x 88.9 x 40 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Futurists’ celebration of the fast pace and mechanical…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini (Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children) c.1616–1617 Marble, 132.4 x 73.7 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The complex composition of intertwined figures, skillfully carved…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) probably 1440s Tempera on wood, gold ground, 77.5 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jacopo Bellini dominated Venetian painting in the middle years of the fifteenth century and…