Sunday, April 19, 2026

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)