ALLISON LIU SCULPTORS YOU GOTTA KNOW
MICHELANGELO Florentine “Renaissance Man” Architect- Dome of St. Peter’s Basilica Painter- The Last Judgement and Sistine Chapel ceiling Poet Military engineer Sculptor Preferred working with Carrara marble
DAVID
PIETÀ
BACCHUS
DYING SLAVE MOSES
AUGUSTE RODIN 1840 – 1917 French sculptor with stormy relationships École des Beaux-Arts in Paris Prestigious school for artists Student Camille Claudel Refused to leave Rose Beuret Known for: expressing inner truths
CAMILLE CLAUDEL Camille Claudel’s Young Girl with a Sheaf, before 1887 Auguste Rodin’s Galatea, 1889
THE AGE OF BRONZE
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS
THE GATES OF HELL
THE THINKER
GIAN LORENZO BERNINI 1598 – 1680 Roman Defined the Baroque movement through: Freestanding sculptures Massive fountains in Rome
DAVID
THE ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA
TRITON
FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR RIVERS
DONATELLO 1386 – 1466 Florentine sculptor Helped define Renaissance sculpture Mastered the low relief form of schiacciato “flattened out”
ST. MARK ST. GEORGE
ZUCCONE
GATTAM ELATA
MADONNA OF THE CLOUDS
LORENZO GHIBERTI 1378 – 1455 Florentine sculptor and goldsmith taught Donatello and Brunelleschi
DOORS OF THE DOME OF FLORENCE
THE SACRIFICE OF ISSAC
THE NORTH DOORS
THE EAST DOORS
GUTZON BORGLUM 1867 – 1941 American Known for: Mount Rushmore The Mares of Diomedes
MOUNT RUSHMORE
THE MARES OF DIOMEDES
STONE MOUNTAIN
PHIDIAS C. 480 BC – c. 430 BC Athenian the greatest of all classical sculptors Supported by the Delian League (Athenian Empire) Run by his friend Pericles Ruined by charges of corruption for political campaign against Pericles
STATUE OF ZEUS
STATUE OF ATHENA
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI 1876 – 1957 Romanian sculptor Major figure in Modernism “industrial products”
THE KISS
SLEEPING MUSE
BIRD IN SPACE
DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH 1850 – 1931 American
THE MINUTE MAN
STANDING LINCOLN
LINCOLN MEMORIAL
FRÉDÉRIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI 1834 – 1904 French sculptor Liberty Enlightening the World
STATUE OF LIBERTY
THE LION OF BELFORT
STATUE OF THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE