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| Lucien-Alcide Brasseur Orpheus 1933 gilt-bronze Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes |
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| Léon Mignon Tribute to Anthony van Dyck 1892-96 bronze Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Zeus 460 BC bronze (salvaged from the Aegean) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Ancient Greek Culture in South Italy Youth 470-460-BC bronze Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen |
Chances are that this bronze Youth would have arrived in Rome as either plunder of war or an extremely expensive imported antique. It had originated and spent its first centuries in what is now Sicily, colonized by Greeks since the 8th century BC. Their territory fell under Roman domination in the 3rd century BC. Large ancient bronzes are exceptionally rare now mainly because they could so easily and profitably be melted down. This one instead found safety in some Roman temple or patrician dwelling for several additional centuries. It may then have been deliberately buried by late-Roman owners or custodians, facing invasion or some other cataclysm, who hoped to return for it and never did. After waiting more than a thousand years, it was dug up by chance inside the city, then quickly appropriated by the Barberini clan, dominant in 17th-century Rome. Displayed in their palace for more than another century, it was ultimately sold off as their fortunes faded. And now has spent another century and more in Copenhagen.
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| Eugen, Prince of Sweden Antoine Bourdelle's bronze Hercules in snow at Waldemarsudde 1931 gouache on paper Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm |
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| Francisque Duret (François-Joseph Duret) Chactas meditating at Atala's Tomb (from the novel Atala by Chateaubriand) 1836 bronze Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye La Guerre ca. 1855 bronze Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye La Force ca. 1855 bronze Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye L'Ordre ca. 1855 bronze Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye La Paix ca. 1855 bronze Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Aristide Maillol Summer ca. 1926 bronze Denver Art Museum |
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| Battista Franco (il Semolei) Study of the Bronze Horses of San Marco ca. 1555 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Auguste Rodin Jean d'Aire (study for Burghers of Calais) 1887 bronze Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Auguste Rodin Pierre De Wiessant (study for Burghers of Calais) 1885 bronze Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Henry Moore Two-Piece Reclining Figure no. 5 1963-64 bronze Kenwood House, London |
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| Elisabeth Frink Birdman ca. 1960 bronze Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Frink's figure took its beginnings from photographs of Léo Valentin, a celebrated French daredevil known as the birdman. He attempted to fly at an air show in Liverpool in 1956, launching from a plane – with wooden wings attached to his arms – but fell to his death. Tiny wings emerge from the Birdman's back. The combination of heroism and failure are recurring themes in Frink's work. She gave the original plaster version of this sculpture to a friend in 1960 and all trace of it was lost for 50 years. This is one of four bronzes cast posthumously by the artist's estate.
– from curator's notes at the National Galleries of Scotland