Caproni Collection

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Forget spiders, witches or ghosts. The creepiest thing of all can be a badly made sculpture. When forms are warped or distorted, the effect is truly upsetting.

Want a snake in a bronze patina? He’s on our website!

This beautifully-rendered piece of a female torso can be a decoration or a great art study. The P.P. Caproni and Brother catalogs called it “Female, antique,” but we do not know its origin beyond this title.

Watching us de-mold our 32” high Declaration of Independence plaque is like traveling to the event itself! Thomas Ball (1819-1911) created this relief after an early 19th century painting by John Trumbull that has been installed in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda since 1826. Ball is perhaps best remembered for his equestrian sculpture of George Washington in the Boston Public Garden. Trumbull’s painting depicts the famous scene, with some artistic liberties. For Ball’s relief, he decided to focus on the right half of Trumbull’s work that shows John Hancock, president of the Congress, receiving the Declaration from its main author, Thomas Jefferson. The future second President of the United States, John Adams, is the figure on the far left of the central group while Benjamin Franklin is seen on Jefferson’s left. Ball designed the relief for the pedestal of Richard Saltonstall Greenough’s sculpture of Benjamin Franklin (installed in 1856) located in front of Boston’s Old City Hall. Ball also sculpted a second relief (Item 789) for the pedestal while Greenough created another two, all four of which depict scenes in Franklin’s life.

This piece is a reduction of one of the grotesques from the exterior of Notre-Dame. It is popularly called “Le Stryge.” This grotesque specifically is also known as a chimera since it is an imagined creature with the body parts of several animals. The decorative grotesques were added during the mid-19th century restoration of the Cathedral by architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.

The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the Athena, is an astounding example of Greek architecture and .

Disrupting our usual classical sculpture programming for some Halloween fun!

Feel put together by owning the set of facial features from Michelangelo’s head of David!