Stone!

The works of the old masters never cease to fascinate to this day. And wonder, indeed, there is something.
"Marble veil." Virgin Mary in marble by Giovanni Stratstsi. The middle of the XIX century.





Statue "Chastity" Antonio Corradini. Marble. 1752. Chapel of San Severo in Naples. The sculpture represents the tombstone of Prince Raimondo mother that gave him life at the cost of his own.



The sculpture "The Rape of Proserpine." Marble. Height 295 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome. Lorenzo Bernini created this masterpiece when he was 23 years old. In 1621. "I won the marble and made him pliable as wax».





Even more difficult is the allegory of a monument (the father of Prince Raimondo - Antonio de Sangro (1685-1757). The Italian name of the monument Disinganno often translated into Russian as "disappointment", but not in a conventional sense, and in Church Slavonic - "Getting rid of the spell" (Chapel of San Severo, Naples)

"Getting rid of the spell" (after 1757) holds Franschesko Kvirolo and is the most famous of his works. Monument valuable finest work on marble and pumice from which the network. Kvirolo was the only Neapolitan artists who agreed to such a fine job, the others refused, believing that with one touch of the tool chain will fall apart into pieces.



It is a miracle, marvelous, indeed, made of marble, and is located in the Chapel of San Severo, Naples, Italy ...



Giuseppe Sammartino - Italian sculptor southern Italian school. He worked in Naples. In its tradition of Baroque style connected with the verismo Neapolitan plastics. (Cristo Velato) - Veiled Christ (Christ under the shroud) - his most famous work. The sculpture is made in 1756.



Collection Devon
Maiden veiled, Monty Raphael (1818-1881).
The sculpture depicts a veil covered the priestess of Vesta - Vestal. Vesta - the Roman goddess, keeper of the sacred fire, which symbolizes the center of life - the state, the city houses. It was believed that there is a fire in any particle of the spirit of Vesta.



Son of sorrow and joy dream
London by Raffaelle Monti - 1861





Well, in the completion of post - Twentieth Century Kevin Francis Gray "Ballerina»



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