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2 unusual facts about Bronze sculpture


Bronze sculpture

In lost-wax or investment casting, the artist starts with a full-sized model of the sculpture, most often a non-drying oil-based clay such as Plasticine model for smaller sculptures or for sculptures to be developed over an extended period (water-based clays must be protected from drying), and water-based clay for larger sculptures or for sculptures for which it is desired to capture a gestural quality - one that transmits the motion of the sculptor in addition to that of the subject.

Four Great Treasures of Annam

The Four Great Treasures of Annam were four bronzes typical of the culture of and Trần dynasties of Vietnam.


Antonio Tobias Mendez

He also created bronze sculptures of the six Baltimore Orioles greats whose uniform numbers were retired by the ballclub, which are located in the picnic area behind the bullpens beyond left-center field at Camden Yards.

Architecture of Munich

The Bavaria statue (German just 'Bavaria') is a bronze-cast statue of a female figure representing Bavaria's "secular patron saint", the Tellus (Mater) Bavarica ("goddess of the land of Bavaria"), located at the border of the Theresienwiese, in the southwest of the inner city where the Oktoberfest takes place.

Compton Verney House

The collections include Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800; Northern European medieval art from 1450–1650; British portraits including paintings of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Edward VI and works by Joshua Reynolds; Chinese bronzes including objects from the Neolithic and Shang periods; British folk art; and 20th century textiles including creations by Enid Marx.

Expose Yourself to Art

The "Expose Yourself to Art" poster featured future Portland, Oregon, Mayor Bud Clark apparently flashing Kvinneakt, Norman J. Taylor's bronze sculpture of a nude woman.

"Expose Yourself to Art" was the name of a poster which featured future Mayor of Portland, Oregon, Bud Clark flashing a bronze sculpture of a nude woman.

Girl in a Wetsuit

The bronze sculpture depicts a friend of Imredy's, Debra Harrington, in a wetsuit with flippers on her feet and a mask on her forehead.

Guardians of the Gate

Guardians of the Gate is a 1991 Everdur bronze sculpture depicting a family of sea lions by Miles Metzger, located northwest of Pier 39 and adjacent to the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, California, United States.

Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain

Ruth Asawa's San Francisco Fountain, or sometimes simply San Francisco Fountain, is a 1970 bronze sculpture and fountain by Ruth Asawa, located outside the Grand Hyatt San Francisco in downtown San Francisco, California, in the United States.

Schedel Arboretum and Gardens

the Schedels had acquired many lovely possessions which they wished to display, such as Persian carpets, a world-class Jade collection, hand-wrought teak furniture, prayer rugs, Japanese silk embroidery, and a thousand-year-old Bronze sculpture.


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195 Broadway

AT&T commissioned Evelyn Beatrice Longman to create a bronze sculpture that she called Genius of Telegraphy, that was to be placed atop a pyramidal structure on the top of the Fulton Street wing of the building.

Alberto Giacometti

L'Homme qui marche I, a life-sized bronze sculpture of a man, became one of

Amilkar Ariza

His works featuring the movements of baseball include a life-size bronze sculpture of Major League Baseball catcher Iván Rodríguez in Miami, Florida.

Arthur Louis Aaron

The five-metre bronze sculpture by Graham Ibbeson takes the form of Aaron standing next to a tree, up which are climbing three children progressively representing the passage of time between 1950 and 2000, with the last a girl releasing a dove of peace, all representing the freedom his sacrifice helped ensure.

Birger Ruud

In 1987, a bronze sculpture of Birger Ruud, by the Norwegian sculptor Per Ung, was set up in Ruud’s native town of Kongsberg, and in 1991 he was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for his achievements in ski jumping and alpine skiing.

Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral

Evocation of a Form: Human, Lunar, Spectral is an abstract bronze sculpture by Jean Arp.

Fittja metro station

The station has a copy of the Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd world famous bronze sculpture "Der Knoten im Revolver", a symbol of non-violence originally made in memory of John Lennon.

Henry Moore Foundation

Reclining Figure 1969–70, a bronze sculpture, was stolen from the foundation at the Foundation's Perry Green base on 15 December 2005.

Højbro

The underwater bronze sculpture Agnete and the Merman, designed by Suste Bonnén, is placed in the canal next to the bridge.

Lunar Bird

Lunar Bird is an abstract bronze sculpture by Joan Miró.

Mariners' Church

The church grounds contain a bronze sculpture of George Washington wearing the apron of a master mason by Donald De Lue.

Medal of Liberty

On the obverse of the medal is the bust of Frédéric Bartholdi, facing slightly to the right and holding in his right hand his small bronze sculpture of Lady Liberty, his template for construction of the Statue of Liberty National Monument at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor.

Michael Ayrton

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "The Maze Maker" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

Minsener Oog

Although this tradition is historically extremely doubtful, there is in Minsen a bronze sculpture of the Minsen Seewiefken, which is also the emblem on the coat of arms for the parish of Wangerland.

Seated Yucatan Woman

Seated Yucatan Woman is a bronze sculpture, by Francisco Zúñiga.

Suebian knot

Historical depictions are found on the Trajan column, the cauldron of Musov, the Tropaeum Traiani relief, and a bronze sculpture of a kneeling German in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.