Famous Sculptures Adkins Humanities

Venus Goddess of beauty and love Venus = Aphrodite Medium - Marble Antonio Canova

David Medium – Bronze First freestanding nude male sculpture made in 1,000 years. According to the Bible, David, a small teenage boy with a slingshot killed a massive, fully- armed man named Goliath. He did it with one shot from his slingshot. Donatello

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Artist – Gianlorenzo Bernini Medium – Marble Saint Teresa was a nun who had visions of angels. In one incident, she described the angel as piercing her heart with a spear. She later was made a saint by the church. Gianlorenzo Bernini

The Thinker Medium – Bronze and Marble There are at least 20 casts around the world, one of which is at U of L. Auguste Rodin

Pieta Medium – Marble Mary is holding the body of Jesus after he has been cruicified. Located in St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City) Michaelangelo

David Medium – Marble 17 feet tall Michaelangelo

Mademoiselle Pogany Constantin Brancusi

Coquille Baillante Jean Arp

Column (Model) Naum Gabo 1923

Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 Henry Moore 1963

Horizontal Yellow Alexander Calder 1972

The Gates Christo 2005

L’Homme Qui March I Alberto Giacometti Medium: Bronze Life-Sized Most expensive sculpture ever sold – $104.3 million

Cubi XIX Medium: Stainless Steel David Smith 1964

Venus de Milo Venus = Aphrodite (the goddess of love an beauty) Artist unknown The arms may have been broken when it was dragged across rocks to the ship (??) Louvre (Paris, France) bc

Nike of Sahothrace a.k.a Winged Victory

Venus of Willendorf Stands 4 inches tall Represents fertility 30,000-25,000 bc

Chartres Cathedral Columns

Jean DuBuffet Monument with Standing Beast

The Burghers of Calais August Rodin 1866

Part of the East Pediment, Parthenon B.C.E.

The Mediterranean Aristide Maillol (Cast 1951)

Kouros = a representation of a young male from ancient Greece This is one of many kouroi. Kouroi are typically life-sized. Artist unknown 615 B.C.E.

Samson Slaying a Philistine Giovanni Bologna 1562

The Kiss Auguste Rodin Medium: Marble (1889) The Kiss/Gustav Klimt/ Medium: Oil and Gold Leaf (1908)

Little Dancer of 14 Years Edgar Degas Medium: Bronze 1881

Monolithic human figures carved out of rock – The figures are called Moai. There are 887 Moai figures on Easter Island, and island is located 2,000 west of Chile in the Pacific Ocean. The heaviest moai weighs 87 tons. ( )

Mount Rushmore George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln South Dakota Granite/Mountain

Lincoln Memorial Washington, D.C. Medium - Marble

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living Artist: Damien Hirst Consists of a tiger shark in formaldehyde Was reportedly sold for 8 million dollars The original shark had to be replaced because of deterioration. Twitter Name

Puppy Artist: Jeff Koons Giant topiary dog

Tete Artist: Amedeo Modigliani (Mrs. Adkins’ favorite artist) Medium - limestons #2 in most expensive sculpture ever sold Nearly full term with she and Modigliani’s 2 nd baby, Jeanne Heberturne (Modigliani’s lover) committed suicide by jumping out of a window. She did this after he died. She was 21. Their daughter was now an orphan. Modigliani died from meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, alcoholism, and drugs.