Marble statues with a veil. Marble veils - ru_art links
Looking at the monuments and sculptures, recognized as masterpieces world cultural heritage, the audience usually feels admiration and delight. But almost every work has some kind of mystery. This review presents famous sculptures, each of which has its own interesting story.
1. Cross-eyed “David”
"David" is considered almost the most recognizable statue in the world. Michelangelo Buanarrotti created it from a piece of marble that another sculptor considered damaged. Besides, modern research showed that David is not so perfect. It turns out he is cross-eyed. Scientists agree that the sculptor deliberately “gifted” his creation with such a flaw, then David’s profile will appear ideal from different angles.
2. False kiss
Auguste Rodin originally named this statue “Francesca da Rimini”, referring to one of the subjects “ Divine Comedy» Dante. A famous Italian woman fell in love with younger brother her husband Paolo. As they whiled away the evening reading a book, a man burst into the room. jealous husband and killed them both.
Critics renamed the sculpture "The Kiss" in 1887. But there is no touching of lips as such, i.e. the lovers have not committed a sin. Moreover, Paolo is holding a book in his hand.
3. Ancient statues were colored
Until recently, it was believed that ancient Greek and Roman statues and white marble were of a natural color. But modern technologies allowed us to claim that the sculptures were painted with all the colors of the rainbow. After some time, the paint peeled off or faded under the influence of weather conditions.
4. Imperfect perfection
In 1863, the French consul and archaeologist Charles Champoiseau discovered a statue of the goddess Nike on the island of Samothrace. It is believed that the sculpture was created in honor of the Greek victories at sea. The statue is missing arms and head. Repeated attempts were made to restore these parts of the statue’s body, but then all the greatness of Nike was lost. In the end, everyone admitted that the beauty of the sculpture of the goddess Nike is in its imperfection.
5. Prophetic dream
During Patriotic War In 1812, Emperor Alexander I gave the order to remove all valuables from St. Petersburg, including the monument to Peter I. At the same time, a certain Major Baturin sought a meeting with Prince Golitsyn, a close associate of the sovereign. He told the prince that he sees the same dream every night. On Senate Square Bronze Horseman with the face of Peter, he leaves his pedestal and goes to Alexander I. Meeting the sovereign, the horseman says: “As long as I am in place, my city has nothing to fear.” After the contents of the dream reached the ears of Alexander I, the statue remained in place.
6. The most long-suffering Little Mermaid
Fate itself famous statue Copenhagen's "The Little Mermaid" can be called just as long-suffering as its fairy-tale prototype. Vandals tried to destroy the Little Mermaid many times. The sculpture’s arm was sawed off, its head was broken off twice, and it was doused with green paint. In addition, once on the back of the statue there was an inscription: “Happy March 8!”
7. Marble veil
When Raphael Monti conceived the “Marble Veil”, he searched for the right stone for a long time. The fact is that the sculptor needed a two-layer block. Monty worked expertly, peeling away the layers. The denser texture of the stone is the basis for the sculpture, and the thin top layer becomes a veil. It looks incredibly realistic, it seems that the stone veil is about to sway from a light breeze.Modern sculptors also find something to surprise the viewer. These
. a marble sculpture of a female head, as if alive, as if covered in transparent, flowing silk
This bust Milanese sculptor of the 19th century Giuseppe Croffa “The Veiled Nun” - “The Veiled Nun” meets you immediately on the stairs, at the entrance to the gallery, I later went to look at it many times when I came to Washington DC.
Then my husband tried to recreate a similar head from cold porcelain and wood http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/mi...a/post226324472, and I was completely confident that this Washington sculpture was unique, until recently until, unexpectedly, in the LiveJournal of my friend uzoranet and my reader Li-rushnaya Galina_vel, I discovered that it turns out that there is a whole community of such ladies in the world.
See for yourself:
This Sculpture of the Vestal Virgin at Chatsworth By Raffaello Monti.
The veiled marble bust of the Vestal Virgin was created by the Italian sculptor Raffaello Monti (1818-1881) in 1860. The bust is exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and for the English estate of Chatsworth the sculptor made the same vestal in full height.
Undine Rising from the Waters
ca. 1880-1882, by Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894), Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 263
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, C.T., United States Of America
Yale University Gallery (USA), by Chauncey Bradley Ives. .
Marble sculpture. "Ondine emerging from the water", 1880,
The Vestal Virgin sculpture was featured in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice.
Beautiful "The Veiled Virgin", at Presentation Convent in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Giovanni Strazza (1818-1875)
White Carrara marble. Sculptor V.P. Brodzsky. 1881
Lady from Kochubey's palace.
Marble bust with transparent veil, 20th century, Bankfield Museum -
This sculpture is given as an example of how to create optical illusion — technical technique in art, the purpose of which is to create the illusion that the depicted object is in three-dimensional space, while in reality it is drawn in a two-dimensional plane.) The effect does not disappear at any angle and at any distance
The pearl of the Petrodvorets collection "The Veiled Lady" by Antonio Corradini.
The sculptor became famous for his skill in depicting faces and figures covered with thin fabric. Purchased by Peter. This sculpture was once full-length, but split in half and is now displayed here in a truncated form)))
Veiled Virgin
Giovanni Strazza
Biblical Rebecca, at Salarjung Museum in India.
Giovanni Benzoni
Veiled Lady
Chatsworth
Femme Voilée (la foi?), by Antonio Corradini, early to mid 1700s, in the Louvre
The Veiled Lady. The Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
He was one of the sculptors who managed to create real masterpieces of Vestal Virgins with marble veils - priestesses greek goddess Vesta. Italian sculptor Rafael Monti 1818-1881.
R. Monty. Veiled Lady.
A native of Milan, Raphael Monti took his first steps under the guidance of his father, also a sculptor, Gaetano Matteo Monti, at the Imperial Academy. He debuted early and won a gold medal for a group called "Alexander Tames Bucephalus." Monti and other young sculptors belonged to the Lombard school, which dominated Italian sculpture in the first half of the nineteenth century. He worked for some time in Vienna and Milan, made his first visit to England in 1846, but returned to Italy again in 1847 and joined the People's Party, becoming one of the main officers of the National Guard. After the disastrous failure of the Risorgimento campaign of 1848, he again fled Italy for England. His career in England was very successful and fruitful. Monty's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and he soon earned recognition as a leading sculptor.
Raffaelle Monti, The Bride, original in marble, 1847
His prize- and medal-winning Eve after the Fall was particularly good, but the two other sculptures in the exhibition, the Circassian Slave Trader and the Vestal, the best in technique, became his trademark: the fine treatment of solid marble figures wrapped in transparent veils.
Vestal Virgin
"Vestal Virgin", was acquired in 1847 by the Duke of Devonshire before the exhibition began, as well as the work "The Dream of Sorrow and the Joy of Dreams", currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The dream of sorrow and the joy of a dream. London 1861.
To create the effect of a thin veil that can move with the slightest breeze requires great skill. Although the technique of veils in sculpture has been known since the time Ancient Greece, throughout history, only a few artists have managed to achieve perfection in this art. Monti was one of the sculptors who managed to make his statues seem as if they were covered with the finest fabric.
The veil ennobles, making a woman attractive and desirable, because she is inaccessible under the veil. And for centuries they have been admiring this beauty and not understanding how it was made.
The art of Raphael Monti - his marble veils make you think. It seems that two opposites - soft transparent silk and the hardest and most opaque stone - have come together in the works of a talented master...
Raffaelle Monti, The Bride, original in marble, 1847 (Bride. Original in marble, 1847
Today we will get acquainted with the works Italian sculptor Raphael Monti 1818-1881 He was one of the sculptors who managed to create real masterpieces of the Vestals with a marble veil - priestesses of the Greek goddess Vesta. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Milan, he took his first steps under the guidance of his father, also a sculptor, Gaetano Matteo Monti, at the Imperial Academy. He debuted early and won a gold medal for a group called "Alexander Tames Bucephalus." He and other young sculptors belonged to the Lombard school, which dominated Italian sculpture in the first half of the nineteenth century. He worked for some time in Vienna and Milan, made his first visit to England in 1846, but returned to Italy again in 1847 and joined the People's Party, becoming one of the main officers of the National Guard. After the disastrous failure of the Risorgimento campaign of 1848, he again fled Italy for England. His career in England was very successful and fruitful. Monty's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and he soon earned recognition as a leading sculptor. His prize- and medal-winning Eve after the Fall was particularly good, but the two other sculptures in the exhibition, the Circassian Slave Trader and the Vestal, the best in technique, became his trademark: the fine treatment of solid marble figures wrapped in transparent veils. "Vestal Virgin", was acquired in 1847 by the Duke of Devonshire before the exhibition began, as well as the work "The Dream of Sorrow and the Joy of Dreams", currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A LITTLE NOTE ABOUT THE VESTALS. I thought it was interesting. Vestals - priestesses of the goddess Vesta in Ancient Rome who enjoyed great respect and honor. Their person was inviolable. The Vestals were freed from paternal authority and had the right to own property and dispose of it at their own discretion. Anyone who insulted the Vestal Virgin in any way, for example, by trying to slip under her stretcher, was punishable by death. A lictor walked ahead of the Vestal Virgin, under certain conditions Vestals had the right to ride in chariots. If they met a criminal on their way to execution, they had the right to pardon him. The duties of the Vestals included maintaining the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta, maintaining the cleanliness of the temple, making sacrifices to Vesta and the penates, protecting the palladium and other shrines. At first there were only six of them, when a vacancy became available, they were chosen from 20 girls from 6 to 10 years of noble origin. The Vestal Virgins newly entering the community were led first of all into the atrium of the Temple of Vesta, where her hair was cut off and hung as a donation to sacred tree, which was already more than 500 years old in the era of Pliny the Elder. Then the young Vestal Virgin was dressed all in white, given the name “Beloved,” which was added to her name, and initiated into new duties. The service life was 30 years, divided equally into training, direct service and training others (mentoring). After these years, the Vestal Virgin became free and could get married. However, the latter happened extremely rarely, since there was a belief that marriage with a vestal would not lead to good, and in addition, when getting married, the former vestal lost her unique social and property status for a Roman woman and became an ordinary matron, completely dependent on her husband, which, of course, was unprofitable for her. The Vestals were very rich, mainly due to the ownership of large estates that provided a large income, in addition to which each personally received from her family a significant sum at the initiation and received generous gifts from the emperors. In 24, when Cornelia joined the ranks of the Vestals, Tiberius gave her 2 million sesterces. Throughout their service, the Vestal Virgins were required to maintain a chaste lifestyle; violation of it was strictly punished. It was believed that Rome could not take upon itself such a sin as the execution of a Vestal Virgin, so they were punished by burial alive (in a field located within the city limits at the Collin Gate on the Quirinal) with a small supply of food, which was not formally death penalty, and the seducer was flogged to death. Guilty of violating her vow, the Vestal Virgin was placed on a stretcher tightly closed and tied with belts so that even her voice could not be heard, and carried through the forum. Everyone silently made way for her and saw her off without saying a word, in deep grief. For the city there was no more terrible sight, there was no sadder day than this. When the stretcher was brought to the appointed place, the slaves untied the straps. The high priest read a mysterious prayer, raised his hands to the sky before the execution, ordered the criminal to be brought up, with a thick veil over her face, placed on the stairs leading to the dungeon, and then left along with the other priests. When the Vestal descended, the ladder was taken away, the hole was filled with a mass of earth from above, and the place of execution became as level as the rest. The institution of the Vestal Virgins lasted until approximately 391, when Emperor Theodosius banned public pagan worship. After this, the sacred fire was extinguished, the temple of Vesta was closed, and the institution of the Vestal Virgins was disbanded. MONTI'S MOST FAMOUS WORKS.
What about pure intention, thought form, consciousness interacting with the quantum structures of minerals? Not without available tools, of course.
Original taken from masterok c It's a stone!
"Marble Veil". Virgin Mary in marble by Giovanni Strazza. Mid XIX century.
At all amazing works There are a lot of old masters. Here are a couple more examples under the cut:
Statue of Chastity by Antonio Corradini. Marble. 1752 Chapel San Severo in Naples. The sculpture represents tombstone the mother of Prince Raimondo, who gave him life at the cost of her own.
Sculpture "The Rape of Proserpina". Marble. Height 295 cm. Borghese Gallery, Rome. Lorenzo Bernini created this masterpiece when he was 23 years old. In 1621. “I conquered marble and made it as flexible as wax.”
Can anyone explain how it is possible to make this net from stone?
An even more complex allegory is the monument (to the father of Prince Raimondo -Antonio de Sangro (1685 - 1757 ). Italian name this monumentDisingannooften translated into Russian as “Disappointment”, but not in the current generally accepted meaning, but inChurch Slavonic — « Getting rid of the spell» (Capella San Severo, in Naples)
"Breakthrough of the Spell" (after 1757) completed Francesco Quiroloand is the most famous of his works. The monument is valuable for its finest marble work and pumice , from which it is made net . Quirolo was the only one of the Neapolitan craftsmen who agreed to such a delicate work; the rest refused, believing that with one touch of the cutter the net would crumble into pieces.
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Original taken from sibved
c It's a stone!
Similar, almost modern works(late 19th century) many. It’s amazing that many corners in the elements cannot be made with a chisel, drill or grinder. There must be a chip, defect, etc. But he's not there! The statues are made perfectly!
Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas) 1717 - 1725
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca" Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
Sculpture, Marble
Done by Antonio Corradini
Veiled Woman (Puritas)
Antonio Corradini
Giuseppe Sanmartino, one of the most famous sculptor of his time, which masterpiece, Il Cristo Velato, is hosted by Sansevero Chapel, the legend says that a real veil was petrified thanks to alchemical processes.
"The Dream of Sorrow and the Joy of Dreams"
Made in London by Raffaelle Monti, 1861
The Sleep Of Sorrow And The Dream Of Joy By Raffaelle Monti
This one is sculpted as if from clay...
Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823-1880): Veiled Woman, 1869.
Stefano Maderno 1576-1636
A few more works:
Original taken from gallika in Sideshow. Girl in the Vorontsov Palace
Have you ever seen such statues? With lively sparkling eyes and silky eyebrows? 
With clothes on which not only lace is visible, but also seams and fabric texture. With a body on which there are folds and pockmarks. And they say that upon closer inspection there are pores... 
This is "The Girl" by the Italian sculptor Quintillian Corbellini, early XIX century. She stands in Winter Garden Palace of Count Vorontsov in Alupka. And it truly is his treasure. 
The first glance at her gives a completely different impression. Yes, not bad, a lively face, a playful pose, a frivolous dress, not appropriate for her age, lowered from her just emerging breasts. 
But once you take a closer look... Lord! She's real! 
And it’s not so much the filigree of the lace, but the folds and wrinkles on the knees that attract attention. 
Swollen baby feet with dirty toes. 
The pose is caught in motion, so unstable. 
Seams on the fabric! 
A gentle, childish, but at the same time playful face... 
And not a childish perspective. 
But the fabric! 
Texture, folds, seams! How is this possible? 
On the other side. 
Pockmark above the elbow. 
Unforgettably alive. 
This is the girl in all her charm that I wanted to show you. Do you believe that this happens? 
Unfortunately, I was unable to find any information about its author. Does anyone know what else he created?
Judging by Lorenzo Bernini’s remark “I conquered marble and made it as plastic as wax,” until quite recently the recipe for “softening” any stone was known. I'm not even talking about the plasticine technology of the ancients, especially in Mesoamerica.
