National Gallery Of Art Marble Bust

52 39 x 27 31 x 22 86 cm.

National gallery of art marble bust. National gallery of canada given by the robert tanenbaum family trust 4 notes 1 the bust was first offered for sale by the artist in 1904 through the kunst salon leipzig a gallery owned by the foundry gladenbeck sohn berlin which had produced three casts of the work dietrich conny and hansdieter erbsmehl. Giuliano de medici was killed at high mass in florence s cathedral on april 26 1478 when the rival pazzi family s assassins staged a surprise attack. The veiled nun is a marble bust depicting a female figure that was sculpted by an unidentified italian workshop in c. Corcoran must have been spellbound as later generations have been not by a famous name but rather by the carver s manipulation of hard marble into soft raised folds that suggest the forms of a face beneath while leaving its exact appearance and expression to the imagination.

Bust probably of georgiana bingham. Admission is always free. Every year in the restoration and conservation laboratory they take in nearly 2 000 works of various media ranging from paintings and sculptures to frames decorative art and much more. National gallery of art washington d c a bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human figure depicting a person s head and neck and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders.

Scottish national portrait gallery object type. It is not easy to tell which marble represents which sister. He was born in dublin in 1790. The national gallery of art the nation s museum preserves collects exhibits and fosters an understanding of works of art.

Bust of statesman in white marble dated 1852 signed christopher moore. From 1874 until the museum closed in 2014 the bust is now displayed in the national gallery of art. Scottish national gallery of modern art 75 belford road edinburgh eh4 3dr modern one 10am 5pm daily from monday 24 august modern. Despite its name the woman depicted is not a nun the bust was popular with visitors to the corcoran gallery of art in washington d c.

Christopher moore 1790 1863 was an irish born sculptor operational mainly in england in the 19th century. Two correspond to two of the marble busts at the american. Mary levkoff who directs the department of sculpture and decorative arts at the national gallery suggests identifications which do not necessarily concur with those put forth by else sass or the thorvaldsen museum the danish museum in fact holds three plaster models. In 1863 washington banker and philanthropist william corcoran purchased this unattributed bust in rome for 300.

Carved in circa 1821 1824.