"The Bust of Jesus", artificial marble on wood
"The Bust of Jesus", artificial marble on wood
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limited, 600 copies | numbered | signed | artificial marble + wood | size 60 x 75 x 33 cm
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"The Bust of Jesus", artificial marble on wood
A real sensation: for the first time, the Vatican granted permission to an artist to produce a full-size replica directly in the face of Michelangelo's world-famous Pieta. For Santini, who is famous for his speciality to sculpt right down to the smallest detail, this was a lifelong dream come true. A cast of a very special quality for lovers and connoisseurs of sculpture.
Limited, signed and numbered world edition of 600 copies made of alabaster marble, socketed on a black wooden plate. Size 60 x 75 x 33 cm.
About Ado Santini
The gracefulness of his sculptures made his art-loving audiences give him ovations at exhibitions in the metropolises of New York, Chicago and London as early as the 1980s. Even art critics who were usually rather cagey wrote about Santini's works: "His sculptures always seem to float. Rarely have portraits of women been seen with so much inner life and high aesthetic sensibility."
Sculptural representation of person's head and shoulders.
Marble powder is polymer-bonded. Artificial marble is characterised by a fine white surface that appears very similar to marble.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.