Mold of a Child's Hand

Hiram Powers (1805-73) was among the first American sculptors to establish an international reputation, rising to fame in the late 1840s with his Greek Slave, a life-size marble sculpture of…

Renaissance art

Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of the period of European history, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400, in parallel with developments which…

Fountains of Italy

Bowl (Italy), 1960–70

Molded bright yellow bowl with five compartments, formed of four open quarter spheres, linked together with square box in center. Bowl (Italy), 1960–70; Designed by Massimo Vignelli (Italian, active USA,…

What is RENAISSANCE ART? What does RENAISSANCE ART mean? RENAISSANCE ART meaning & explanation

…the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the Renaissance, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400, in parallel with developments…

Academic Art

Rococo

…to other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Bavaria, Austria, other parts of Germany, and Russia. It also came to influence the other arts, particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware and glassware,…

Donatello

…classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture, whose periods in Rome, Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy a long and productive…

Bernini, Apollo e Dafne

Galleria Borghese – 1622-25…

Drawing, Stage Design, Interior of Egyptian Temple, 1810–30

Horizontal rectangle. Interior of Egyptian temple with sarcophagi and sacred images. Two sphinxes on pedestals, one marked with five-pointed star. At center, sculpture with braziers provides interior light. Group of…