Bronze Cross
An Introduction to Small Bronze SculpturesThere was a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when little bronzes were highly fashionable and without apparent effort received from one of the a good deal of foundries in Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain. The popularity of little bronze sculptures as a ornamental item in the home disseminate from Europe to the States at this time. Replicas of Roman gods and goddesses, nude bathing women and nude Nubians standing guard ranged from 15cm to 2 metres high. They were a genre of art where nudity was adequate for the purpose in a time when modesty was in general the norm.
From the earliest imitations of Roman sculptures, the range of pieces available grew to include exquisitely made miniatures of works by Michelangelo, Rodin, Hussmann, Lord Leighton, Alfred Gilbert and many, a heap of others.
With the rise of Art Deco in the 1920's, the creation of little bronzes begun to die out and their popularity declined regularly until the Victoria and Albert Museum in London held an exhibition of Italian bronze statuettes in 1961. With over 200 miniature bronzes from the 15th to the 18th century on display, the exhibition generated new interest in this genre of art and a new generation of gatherers arose. Prices increased a thousand-fold in the twenty years from the beginning of the 1960's. This unpredicted rise in values also led to a specialist market to supply the bronzes from collections that had lain in obscurity for over 50 years.
One of the most ordinary little bronze replicas is that of the statue of Laocoon and His Sons. The primary is a big marble sculpture housed in the Vatican Museum. It depicts the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons being strangled by sea serpents. Other typical sculptures in famous collections of bronzes would almost surely include a pair of highly beautified vases depicting Roman history, goddesses such as Diana or Ariadne, nude male figures, either alone or with a victim. These male figures would have rippling muscles and expressive body language, though not inevitably expressive faces. Examples would be Hercules wrestling to the death with Antaeus, Samson slaying a Philistine or David and the fallen Goliath. And perchance Christ carrying the cross or Apollo slaying a python.
Such bronzes come from a wide range of dissimilar sculptors with dissimilar technical and artistic achievements and from widely varying dates and countries but the themes are all mutual to the genre.
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