Sculpture and Objects Renaissance to 19 th Century

Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac

Feast of Harod, (presentation of head of the Baptist Donatello, Siena The artist achieved great fame in his own lifetime and was often called upon to work for other Italian cities. In 1427 he was commissioned to make a bronze relief for a font at Sienna. His subject was "The Feast of Herod" a scene from the life of St John the Baptist. This work shows the moment when Salome asks Herod for the head of John as a reward for her dancing, and gets it. The executioner kneels carrying the head of the saint on a platter and the King recoils in horror

Donnatello, Saint George Florence

Donatello. David. 1428. Florence Bronze. 5’ 2”

Filippo Brunelleschi Dome of Florence Cathedral. 1417 -36. Brunelleschi invented a structural system by which each portion of the dome reinforced the next one as it was built up layer by layer. When completed, this self buttressed unit required no external support.

Title: The Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome Source/ Museum: n/a Artist: Donato Bramante Medium: n/a Date: 1502 -1511 Size: n/a

Title: Plan of Bramante's Tempietto (after Serlio, in Regole generali di architettura). Gray tint indicates unbuilt sections Artist: see Title Date: n/a Source/ Museum: n/a Medium: n/a Size: n/a

Title: Bronze medal showing Bramante’s design for St. Peter’s Source/ Museum: The British Museum, London Artist: Caradosso Medium: n/a Date: 1506 Size: n/a

Title: Elements of Architecture: Saint Peter's Basilica Source/ Museum: n/a Artist: n/a Medium: n/a Date: n/a Size: n/a

Michelangelo. Pietà, from Old Saint Peter’s. c. 1500 Marble. 5’ 8. 5”

• Michelangelo. David • 1501 -4 • Marble, h 13’ 5”

Title: Reconstruction of Michelangelo's plan of the Tomb of Pope Julius (after Tolnay) Source/ Museum: n/a Artist: Medium: n/a Date: ca. 1505 Size: n/a

Title: Moses, S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome Source/ Museum: n/a Artist: Michelangelo Medium: marble Date: ca. 1513– 1515 Size: height 7'8 1/2" (2. 35 m)

Title: Awakening Prisoner Source/ Museum: Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence Artist: Michelangelo Medium: marble Date: ca. 1525 Size: height 8'11" (2. 7 m)

• Saint Peters Basilica and Piazza • Vatican, Rome • 1607 -26, • 1656 piazza

• Gianlorenze Bernini. Baldacchino (canopy) • Saint Peter’s Bas. , Vatican, Rome 1624 -33 • Gilt bronze 100 feet • Constructed for pope Urban VIII • combined architecture and sculpture so that works no longer fit into a single category or medium. • The twisted columns symbolize the union of old and new testaments

• Gianlorenzo Bernini. Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. 1642 -52

• • Gianlorenzo Bernini. David 1623 Marble h 5’ 7” new type of three dimensional composition that intrudes forcefully on the viewers space.

Louis Le-Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Palais de Versailles, France. 1668 -85

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun. Hall of Mirrors, Palais de Versailles 1678 240 feet The underlying theme for the design and decoration of the palace was the glorification of the king as Apollo the sun god. Louis IV thought of the duties of kingship, including its pageantry, as a solemn performance, so it was appropriate that Rigaud’s portrait presented him on a raised, stage-like platform.

• Francois Giradon. Apollo Attended by the Nymphs of Thetis. Grotto of Thetis, Palais de Versailles, • 1666 -75 • Marble, lifesize

Auguste Rodin, Balzac Nude with Arms Crossed / Study for Balzac Nude 1892 Bronze, 127 x 61 x 54. 5 cm (50 x 24 x 21. 5 in) Signed on base: Rodin; on side of base: Original/no. 1 and Alexis Rudier/Fondeur Paris Billy Rose Collection, Acquired 1966. Image Courtesy of the Israel Museum Jerusalem.

THE GATES OF HELL by Auguste Rodin

Rodin, Spirit of War

Augustus Saint-Gaudens. 1886 The tale of the statue is simple enough. Adams commissioned his friend Augustus Saint. Gaudens to create it in 1886, one year after his wife, Marian Adams, committed suicide. The larger structure later served as a tomb for both Marian and Henry Adams after the latter died in 1918, but the bronze figure became a tourist attraction even before Adams had seen it for himself.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens The Memorial to Shaw and the Mass. 54 th New York

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, 1848 -1907), Victory, 1892 -1903; this cast, 1914 or after, by 1916, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1917 (17. 90. 1).