Thursday, September 20, 2018

Relief Sculptures in a Multitude of Materials

Anonymous German sculptor
Annunciation
ca. 1480-1500
mother-of-pearl carved in relief
Victoria & Albert Museum

Anonymous Italian sculptor
Cameo - Neoclassical Woman
ca. 1855-60
lava carved in relief
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Anonymous French sculptor
Mythological Scene
ca. 1680-1700
tortoiseshell carved in relief
Victoria & Albert Museum

Anonymous Roman sculptor
Cameo fragment - Theatrical Mask and Seated Figure
geode carved in relief
2nd century AD
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Giovanni Bernardi
The Battle of Pavia
ca. 1531-35
rock-crystal carved in relief
(commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici in Rome)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

The relief-carvings or castings grouped here – some anonymous and some attributable to individual artists – were created in Europe across many past centuries and each from a different medium or composed of a different material, which include the following –

mother-of-pearl
lava
tortoiseshell
geode
rock crystal
jade
silver
gold
brass
lead
boxwood
alabaster
plaster
aluminum  

Berquin-Varangoz Workshop
Portrait of Heber R. Bishop
1898
relief carved in jade
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

workshop of Guglielmo della Porta
Flagellation of Christ
ca. 1560
relief-plaque cast in silver
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Cesare Targone
Virgin mourning the Dead Christ
1586-87
repoussé gold relief on obsidian background
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous Italian sculptor
Sacrifice of Aaron
ca. 1575-1600
relief-plaque cast in brass
Harvard Art Museums

Anonymous French sculptor
Apollo and Diana
ca. 1600
relief-plaque cast in lead
Harvard Art Museums

Anonymous German or Flemish sculptor
Resurrection of Christ
ca. 1600-1650
boxwood carved in relief
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Jacques Dubroeucq
Dead Christ supported by God the Father
ca. 1550
alabaster carved in relief
Victoria & Albert Museum

Raymond Duchamp-Villon
The Lovers
1913
plaster relief
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jacob Berg
Side-panel from The Gray Shop
Oakland, California

ca. 1930
relief-panel cast in aluminum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco