Solids

Ursula von Rydingsvard
Dumna
2015
bronze
New Orleans Museum of Art

Friedrich Hagenauer
Portrait of a Young Man
before 1546
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Hans Arp
Evocation d'une Forme Humaine, Lunaire, Spectrale
created 1950 - this enlarged version cast in 1957
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Diva Giulia
ca. 1500-1502
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Bernard Rosenthal
Rondo
1965
bronze on marble base
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Piero Paolo Galeotti
Bianca Pansana Carcania
before 1587
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Barbara Hepworth
Figure for Landscape
1960
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

attributed to Giovanni Candida
Maximilian I, Archduke of Austria (later Emperor)
1477
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Albert Paley
Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery
(winning entry in design competition)
1974
bronze, steel, brass, copper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Guillaume Dupré
Maria Magdalena, consort of Cosimo II de' Medici
1613
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri Matisse
Copy after Puget's Écorché
1903
bronze
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Giovanni Battista Cambi (il Bombarda)
Violante Brasavola
ca. 1565-75
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (Blue Purple Left Red Streak Mask M15.c)
2011
painted bronze
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Giovanni da Cavino
Portrait of Alessandro Bassiano with Self Portrait
before 1570
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jean Broome-Norton
Woman with Horses
1934
patinated bronze relief
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Pietro Calvi
Ira Aldridge as Othello
ca. 1870
bronze and marble
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Ferdinand Barbedienne
Allegorical Figure
ca. 1880-90
bronze
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

The Defeated

In battles of no renown

My fellows and I fell down,

And over the dead men roar

The battles they lost before.

The thunderstruck flagstaffs fall,

The earthquake breaches the wall,

The far-felled steeples resound,

And we lie under the ground.

O soldiers, saluted afar

By them that had seen your star,

In conquest and freedom and pride

Remember your friends that died.

Amid rejoicing and song

Remember, my lads, how long,

How deep the innocent trod

The grapes of the anger of God.

– A.E. Housman (1936)

Solids

Agostino Zoppo after Jacopo Sansovino
Door Knocker as Triton
ca. 1550
bronze
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich

Matteo de' Pasti
Portrait of Isotta degli Asti
(3rd wife of Sigismondo Malatesta)
1446
bronze medallion
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Auguste Rodin
First Maquette for The Burghers of Calais
1884
bronze
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

workshop of Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Portrait of Riccio
ca. 1532
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giovanni Francesco Susini
The Farnese Bull
ca. 1630
bronze
(after an antique group in Naples)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Francesco Laurana
Jean d'Anjou, Duke of Calabria and Lorraine
1464
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Andrew Rogers
Unfurling
2006
bronze
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Friedrich Hagenauer
Giovanni Alessandro Balbiani, Count of Chiavenna
(mercenary leader of German troops against French and Italians) 
1529
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Benvenuto Cellini
Portrait of banker and arts patron Bindo Altoviti
1549
bronze
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Pietro Paolo Galeotti
Cassandra Marinoni
ca. 1552
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jacques Bousseau
Warrior bending Bow
1715
bronze
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli)
Lodovica Tornabuoni
ca. 1485-86
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Viktor Hammer
Mourning Woman
1966
bronze
Wiesbauer Family Grave, Hietzing Cemetery, Vienna

Giovanni Battista Cambi (il Bombarda)
Portrait of Leonora, wife of the artist
ca. 1565-75
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Isaac Witkin
Firebird
1983
bronze
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Francesco da Sangallo
Elena Marsuppini, wife of the artist
1551
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gaston Lachaise
Standing Figure
ca. 1927
bronze
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?

And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?

And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?

Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his;

In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is;

Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair

For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair.

Oh a deal of pain he's taken and a pretty price he's paid

To hide his poll or dye it of a mentionable shade;

But they've pulled the beggar's hat off for the world to see and stare,

And they're taking him to justice for the colour of his hair.

Now 'tis oakum for his fingers and the treadmill for his feet,

And the quarry-gang on Portland in the cold and in the heat,

And between his spells of labour in the time he has to spare

He can curse the God that made him for the colour of his hair.

– A.E. Housman (1936)

Militant

Carlo Crivelli
St George and the Dragon
1470
tempera and gold on panel
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Paris Bordone
Perseus armed by Mercury and Minerva
ca. 1545-55
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Camillo Mariani
Roman General Aulus Caecina Alienus
ca. 1590
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz
Portrait of Prince Philip Emmanuel of Savoy
ca. 1604
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Giacomo Franco
Venetian Military Captain in Parade Armour
with view of the Battle of Lepanto
ca. 1610
engraving
British Museum

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Landsknecht
(series, Capricci e Habiti Militari)
before 1629
etching
British Museum

Justus Sustermans
Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio
1649
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Samuel Bottschild
Study of Roman Cuirasse and Helmet
1674
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

 

Georg Fennitzer
Portrait of Werner von Parsberg
(copied from a painting dated 1442)
ca. 1690
mezzotint
British Museum

Girolamo Ferroni after Carlo Maratti
Joshua commanding the Sun to Halt
ca. 1710-30
etching
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Domenico Maria Fratta
Sleeping Pandur (Hungarian Soldier)
1745
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot
Grenadier à la Grecque
(fanciful figure with architectural elements)
1771
etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

James Fittler after Henry Howard
Coriolanus
1805
etching
(illustration to an edition of Shakespeare)
British Museum

Anonymous Italian Woodcarver
Puppet - Orlando Furioso
19th century
painted wood body, silk satin suit, brass armor
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Anonymous British Printmaker
Edmund Kean as Richard Coeur de Lion
ca. 1830
hand-colored engraving, with embellishments
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Winslow Homer
Cavalry Soldier
1863
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Conrad Felixmüller
Soldier in Madhouse II
1918
lithograph
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Alexias: the Complaint of the Forsaken Wife of Sainte Alexis: 

The Seconde Elegie

Though All the joyes I had fled hence with Thee

Unkind! yet are my Teares still true to me.

I'm wedded ore again, since thou art gone,
Nor couldst thou, cruell, leave me quite alone.

Alexis' widdow now is sorrow's wife,
With him shall I weep out my weary life.
Wellcome, my sad sweet Mate! Now have I gott

At last a constant love that leaves me not. 
Firm he, as thou art false, nor need my cryes
Thus vex the earth & teare the beauteous skyes.
For him, alas, n'ere shall I need to be
Troublesom to the world, thus, as for thee.
For thee I talk to trees; with silent groves
Expostulate my woes & much-wrong'd loves.
Hills & relentlesse rockes, or if there be

Things that in hardnesse more allude to thee,

To these I talk in teares, & tell my pain,
And answer too for them in teares again.
How oft have I wept out the weary sun!
My watry hour-glasse hath old times outrunne.
O I am learned grown, poor love & I
Have study'd over all astrology.
I'm perfect in heavn's state, with every starr
My skillfull greife is grown familiar.

Rise, fairest of those fires, whate're thou be
Whose rosy beam shall point my sun to me,
Such as the sacred light that erset did bring
The Eastern princes to their infant king.
O rise, pure lamp! & land thy golden ray
That weary love at last may find his way.

– Richard Crashaw, Sacred Poems (1652)