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Category: Sculptor

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ‘Enlightens the World’

“My only ambition has been to engrave my name at the feet of great men and in the service of grand ideas,” wrote Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi circa 1880. New York Public Library Archives. (Public Domain) Today Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi is most known for one colossal work of sculpture that he…


Cowboy Artist Welds Rusted Tractors, Scrap Metal Into Unreal Western Animals, Garners Worldwide Fame

A sculptor from South Dakota is immortalizing the cultural heritage of the land he loves by turning rusted scrap metal and old farming equipment into breathtaking, life-sized works of art. John Lopez, 51, lives on a 14-acre hobby ranch in Lemmon, South Dakota, the town where he was born and raised. Besides his two (breathing)…


Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter and Sculptor of Florence

The greatest gifts are often seen, in the course of nature, rained by celestial influences on human creatures; and sometimes, in supernatural fashion, beauty, grace, and talent are united beyond measure in one single person, in a manner that to whatever such an one turns his attention, his every action is so divine, that, surpassing…


Life of Donatello, Sculptor of Florence

Donato, who was called Donatello by his relatives and wrote his name thus on some of his works, was born in Florence in the year 1403. Devoting himself to the arts of design, he was not only a very rare sculptor and a marvellous statuary, but also a practised worker in stucco, an able master…


The Life of Filippo Brunelleschi, Sculptor and Architect

Many men are created by nature small in person and in features, who have a mind full of such greatness and a heart of such irresistible vehemence, that if they do not begin difficult—nay, almost impossible—undertakings, and bring them to completion to the marvel of all who behold them, they have never any peace in…


Sculptor of Dismantled Tiananmen Statue Says Damage Symbolic of Hong Kong Struggle

HONG KONG—The sculptor of a statue commemorating the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square clampdown said on Friday that its removal from a Hong Kong university was “brutal” but any damage would be symbolic of recent changes in the city under Chinese rule. The eight-meter (26-foot) sculpture of anguished human torsos was one of the…


Sculptor, 78, Crafts Giant ‘Floating Artworks’ to Share Joy and Hope: ‘Be True to Yourself’

A 78-year-old Italian sculptor who always dreamed of building a boat is realizing that wish with a whimsical spin. His giant “floating artworks” are magical masterpieces that defy belief when they take to the water. Sculptor Livio De Marchi of Venice, Italy, has been making art for the city in which he was born and raised…


Fame, Obscurity, Controversy: Moses Ezekiel, Cadet and Sculptor

The place: New Market, Virginia; the date: May 15, 1864. Under the command of General John C. Breckinridge, 257 cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and other Confederate troops charge across a rain-soaked, newly plowed field against General Franz Sigel’s Union forces. Many of the cadets lose their shoes in the muck, rendering that…


Artist Sculpts Stunning Leonardo-esque Horse out of Twisted Driftwood From the Ocean

Washington artist Jeffro Uitto gathers the medium for his artwork on the beaches near his home during the winter months. It can take years collecting the gnarly, twisted driftwood which comprises his expressive animal sculptures in order to amass enough for what will become one of his pieces. The artist from Tokeland, the small coastal…


Photos: Artist Turns Fragile Pencil Lead Into Incredible Miniature Works of Art

A Bosnian sculptor is turning one of the artist’s most rudimentary tools—the pencil—into stunning pieces of artwork itself. Jasenko Đorđević’s miniature sculptures, carved from pencil lead, are both a commentary on the medium and an invitation to reconceptualize grand art on a microscopic scale. Inspired by lead artist Dalton Ghetti, Đorđević was the first person in…