Video: Craftsmanship or Technology?
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
A selection of sculptures that make you wonder about the technology with which they were created.
It seems that such masterpieces can only be made on modern CNC machines.
But, looking at the works of art presented below, many alternative researchers suggest casting technologies, noting that in the presented most complex and thinnest elements it is impossible to work with a chisel, drill or grinder without producing scrap, chips that are not present on the statues presented. According to these versions, the main work is carried out on a plaster or wax mold for casting. Nowadays, similar technologies are used, for example, the creation of copies of sculptures of the Summer Garden from marble chips with polymer in St. Petersburg:
Maybe the masters of the recent past knew the recipe for the philosopher's stone? And this recipe was quite common for that time, like the artificial marble compositions from the Handicrafts Handbook, published in 1931?
One way or another, such works of art amaze, delight and seem impossible …
"Marble Veil". Virgin Mary in marble by Giovanni Strazza. Mid-19th century.
Statue "Chastity" by Antonio Corradini. Marble. The year is 1752. Chapel of San Severo in Naples. The sculpture is a tombstone for the mother of Prince Raimondo, who gave him life at her own cost.
Sculpture "The Abduction of Proserpine". Marble. Height 295 cm. Borghese Gallery, Rome. Lorenzo Bernini created this masterpiece when he was 23 years old. In 1621. "I defeated marble and made it pliable like wax."
An even more complex allegory is the monument (to the father of Prince Raimondo - Antonio de Sangro (1685-1757). The Italian name of this monument, Disinganno, is often translated into Russian as "Disappointment", but not in the current generally accepted meaning, but in Church Slavonic - "Deliverance from the spell." (Chapel of San Severo, in Naples)
The Deliverance of the Enchantment (after 1757) is by Francesco Quirolo and is the most famous of his works. The monument is valuable for the finest work on marble and pumice, from which the net is made. Quirolo was the only one of the Neapolitan craftsmen who agreed to such a delicate work, while the rest refused, believing that with one touch of the cutter, the network would crumble into pieces.
Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas) 1717 - 1725
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca 'Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
Sculpture, Marble
Done by Antonio Corradini
Veiled Woman (Puritas)
Antonio Corradini
"Sleep of sorrow and joy of dreams"
Made in London by Raffaelle Monti, 1861
The Sleep Of Sorrow And The Dream Of Joy By Raffaelle Monti
Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823-1880): Veiled Woman, 1869.
Stefano Maderno 1576-1636
Girl in the Vorontsov Palace:
This is the "Girl" by the Italian sculptor Quintillian Corbellini, early 19th century. It stands in the Winter Garden of the Palace of Count Vorontsov in Alupka.
Seams on the fabric!
Barrias, Louis Ernest (Barrias Louis-Ernest) 1841, Paris - 1905
Giuliano Finelli. Sculptural portrait of Maria Duglioli Barberini. 1621 year. Stored in the Louvre.
Marble bust with transparent veil, 20th century, Bankfield Museum.
Thomas Baker by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, marble sculpture, circa 1638.
Taj Mahal - Openwork carving on white marble
In one of the temples of India
The Sleep Of Sorrow And The Dream Of Joy By Raffaelle Monti
Marble Bust of a Veiled Maiden Signed By Raffaello Monti
A. Kungurov's opinion regarding the production of such sculptures:
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