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Description: Barra
TitleBarra
Creator nameUnknown
Creator name (description)After sculpture by David d'Angiers
Creator nationality/cultureUnknown
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1847
Object typePrint
MaterialsEngraving
LocationArt-Union 9 (1847): 281
SubjectsSculpture, French--19th centuryMale nude in artDeath in art
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5. Death and Domesticity: Shipwrecked Mother and Child
Joy S. Kasson
Description: Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
A fascination with female victimization dominated American ideal sculpture in the mid–nineteenth century, most notably in such captivity subjects as The Greek Slave, but also in a variety of works that represented women in peril.Randolph...
Author
Joy S. Kasson
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1990 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.101-140
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31604&redirecttoanchor=105240
Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryWomen and gender in art--United States--19th centurySentimentalism in art--United States--19th centuryDeath in art--United States--19th centuryCemeteries--United States--History--19th centuryMount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge, Mass.)Motherhood in art--United States--19th century

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Description: Laocoön
Laocoön
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 20
Creator nationality/cultureRoman
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date40–30 B.C.
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsMarble
DimensionsH: 242 cm
LocationVatican Museums, Rome
https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US
Accession numberCat. 1059
Laocoön
Laocoön
Description: Tipu's Tiger
Tipu's Tiger
Posted by:John Carlson
Mar 21
Creator nationality/cultureIndian
Creator roleToymaker/Designer/Developer
Creation datec. 1793
Object typeToy/Game
MaterialsPainted wood with metal fixtures
DimensionsHeight: 28 in. (71 cm); width: 24 in. (61 cm); length: 70 1/8 in. (178 cm)
LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O61949/tippoos-tiger-mechanical-organ-unknown/
Accession number2545(IS)
Tipu's Tiger
Tipu's Tiger
Description: Farnese Hercules
Farnese Hercules
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 17
Creator nationality/cultureRoman
Creator roleSculptor
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsMarble
DimensionsH: 317 cm
LocationNational Archaeological Museum, Naples
Accession number6001
Farnese Hercules
Farnese Hercules
Description: Death of the Virgin (left); The Man of Sorrows (right)
Death of the Virgin (left); The Man of Sorrows (right)
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 15
Creator nameSchongauer, Martin;Unknown
Creator nationality/cultureGerman; Unknown
Creator roleIllustrator
Creation datec. 1550
Object typeIllustration
MaterialsEngraving (left); drawing in grisaille (right)
LocationStaatliche Museen zu Berlin
Death of the Virgin (left); The Man of...
Death of the Virgin (left); The Man of Sorrows (right)
Description: Outline drawings of the statue of Coatlicue
Outline drawings of the statue of Coatlicue
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 18
Creator roleIllustrator
Object typeIllustration
Outline drawings of the statue of...
Outline drawings of the statue of Coatlicue
Description: African Venus
African Venus
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 01
Creator nameCordier, Charles-Henri-Joseph
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1852
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsBronze and gold
LocationMusée de l'Homme, Paris
African Venus
African Venus
Description: Apollo Belvedere
Apollo Belvedere
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 08
Creator nationality/cultureRoman
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date120–140 AD
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsMarble
DimensionsH. 224 cm
LocationVatican Museums, Rome
https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1015.0.0
Accession numberM_1015_0_0
Apollo Belvedere
Apollo Belvedere
Description: Pendant, the "Death Knight"
Pendant, the "Death Knight"
Posted by:John Carlson
Aug 02
Creator nationality/cultureMixtec
Creator roleJeweler
Creation datec. 1250
Object typeJewelry
MaterialsGold
DimensionsHeight 4 in. (10.2 cm)
LocationMuseo Regional, Oaxaca, Mexico
Pendant, the "Death Knight"
Pendant, the "Death Knight"
Description: Model of a house on a platform
Model of a house on a platform
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 15
Creator nationality/cultureNayarit
Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist
Creation date100 BC–AD 300
Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object
MaterialsEarthenware
Dimensions13 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 7 in. (35.2 x 28.6 x 17.8 cm)
LocationArt Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/120440
Accession number1991.479
Model of a house on a platform
Model of a house on a platform
Description: Malevich in his coffin
Malevich in his coffin
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 15
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1935
Object typePhotograph
LocationStedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Malevich in his coffin
Malevich in his coffin
Description: The Dormition
The Dormition
Posted by:John Carlson
Apr 27
Creator roleSculptor
Creation datec. AD 970–1030
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsSteatite
Dimensions5 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 5/8 in. (13 x 11.2 x 1.5 cm)
LocationKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Accession numberKK_8797
The Dormition
The Dormition
Description: The Dying Gladiator
The Dying Gladiator
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 20
Creator nationality/cultureRoman
Creator roleSculptor
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsMarble
Dimensions93 × 186 × 89 cm
LocationCaptioline Museums, Rome
http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/palazzo_nuovo/sala_del_gladiatore/statua_del_galata_capitolino
Accession numberMC0747
The Dying Gladiator
The Dying Gladiator
Description: Doryphorus
Doryphorus
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 06
Creator name (description)After a bronze original of Polykleitos, c. 440 BC
Creator nationality/cultureRoman
Creator roleSculptor
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsMarble
DimensionsH: 212 cm
LocationNational Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
Doryphorus
Doryphorus
Description: Life of St Amand: The death of St Amand
Life of St Amand: The death of St Amand
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 10
Creator roleIlluminator
Creation date1000–1100
Object typeBook/Manuscript
LocationBibliothèque de Valenciennes, France
Accession numberMs. 502, fol. 30
Life of St Amand: The death of St Amand
Life of St Amand: The death of St Amand
Description: Statue of Coatlicue
Statue of Coatlicue
Posted by:John Carlson
Aug 02
Creator nationality/cultureAztec
Creator roleSculptor
Creation datec. 1470–1500
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsAndesite
Dimensions137 3/4 x 51 1/8 x 51 1/8 in. (350 x 130 x 130 cm)
LocationMuseo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City
http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/coleccion/pieza-244/ficha-basica.html
Statue of Coatlicue
Statue of Coatlicue
Description: The Monument to Balzac
The Monument to Balzac
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameRodin, Auguste
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleSculptor
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsPlaster
Dimensions118 1/8 x 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in. (300 x 120 x 120 cm)
The Monument to Balzac
The Monument to Balzac
Description: The Monument to Balzac
The Monument to Balzac
Posted by:John Carlson
Jan 23
Creator nameRodin, Auguste
Creator nationality/cultureFrench
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date1898
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsPlaster
Dimensions118 1/8 x 47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in. (300 x 120 x 120 cm)
The Monument to Balzac
The Monument to Balzac
Description: Model of a circular ceremonial center
Model of a circular ceremonial center
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 15
Creator nationality/cultureNayarit
Creator rolePotter/Ceramicist
Creation dateAD 100–800
Object typeReligious/Ritual/Ceremonial Object
MaterialsCeramic and pigment
Dimensions13 x 18 1/2 in. (33 x 47 cm )
LocationArt Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/75238
Accession number1989.639
Model of a circular ceremonial center
Model of a circular ceremonial center
Description: Dying Hercules
Dying Hercules
Posted by:John Carlson
Jul 20
Creator nameMorse, Samuel Finley Breese
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1812
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions96 1/4 × 78 1/8 in. (244.5 × 198.4 cm)
LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/224
Accession number1866.3
Dying Hercules
The Dying Hercules

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