Marble Roman Statues

Its collection history goes back at least 567 years.

Marble roman statues.

Portraits or busts and marble copies of greek bronzes. Buy classical greek and roman marble statues busts sculptures ceramic pottery vases and other greek artifacts made in greece. The bust was the most commonly used medium for official portraits inspired by roman examples. Marble sculpture is the art of creating three dimensional forms from marble.

Our artists are among the most talented carvers in the world. Sculpture is among the oldest of the arts. Each hand carved marble statue is created with the same concern for detail and quality as the original one. Also worthy of note is a roman altar which in cornelius vermeule s words possesses one of the most distinguished epigraphic pedigrees of any roman marble.

Also see greek and roman busts historical reproductions statues will be in our classical statue gallery but you will also find many in the galleries of figurines and life size sculptures. The study of roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to greek sculpture many examples of even the most famous greek sculptures such as the apollo belvedere and barberini faun are known only from roman imperial or hellenistic copies. During the republican era artists carved realistic portraits of people including political leaders military officials and historians from the chest or neck up known as busts these life sized works are celebrated for their impressively. Although greek sculptures are associated with white marble greek sculpture in the early classical period were often made in bronze during the high classical period and after sculptures were made from white marble and were often painted.

From these beginnings artifacts have evolved to their current complexity. Even before painting cave walls early humans fashioned shapes from stone. At one time this imitation was taken by art historians as indicating a narrowness of the roman artistic imagination but in the late 20th century. The bronze and marble gallery are also the distributor for kosmolux marble statues and fountains.

Five sculptures in the sale have passed through the hands of new york dealer joseph brummer 1883 1947. Instead of merely copying greek marble statues by creating idealized images of their leaders as gods citizens of the roman republic wanted to showcase their values in human form. Ancient greek art for sale. Molds taken from the original sculptures were used to make plaster casts that could be shipped to workshops anywhere in the greek and roman empire where they were used as prototypes to replicate in marble.

To that end this bust shies away from presenting the subject as a young athletic man but rather emphasizes his age and therefore wisdom through distinct wrinkles carved into his face and neck. Roman sculptors also used primarily white marble though they did not paint their sculptures as greeks did.