Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part Two)
In 1879, Auguste Rodin entered a competition to design a war memorial honoring the Parisians who defended the city while it
Category: Sculpture
Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?* (Rodin’s The Call to Arms, Part One)
(Above: Rue de Rivoli, Paris; 1871) What makes a war memorial appropriate or inappropriate? Whom or what should be remembered?
A Perfect Indian is He – Sculptures of The Buddha
In 563 BCE, in foothills of the Himalayas, a holy man prophesied that the king’s newborn son, Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
Send lawyers, guns and money – Houdon’s Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
There’s something special about marble. Ever since the invention of metal tools during the Bronze Age, marble has been carved by
The sculpture has been drinking – Picasso’s Sculpture, A Glass of Absinthe
Once it became widely available in the mid-1800s, a drink fondly nicknamed “the green fairy” became the liquid muse of choice
For All the Single Ladies – Durga, the Invincible Goddess
Hinduism, the world’s oldest living religion, originated in India about 4000 years ago and encompasses a vast array of practices
