Title: Birds 13 (Birds in Art. Sculpture)
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2Ganymede waters Zeus as an eagle by Bertel
Thorvaldsen, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum
3Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, 1770-1844) Ganymede
waters Zeus as an eagle, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum
4Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, 1770-1844) Ganymede
waters Zeus as an eagle, 1817 Thorvaldsen
Museum The ancient tale tells how Ganymede, son
of King Tros (who gave Troy its name), was the
most beautiful of all youths. Ganymede is chosen
by the gods as Zeus' cupbearer
5Ganymede waters Zeus as an eagle by Bertel
Thorvaldsen, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum
6Ganymede The State Hermitage Museum, Roman work,
late 1st C AD
Ganymede, a shepherd and son of Tros, a legendary
king of Troy. His outstanding beauty caused
Jupiter to fall in love with him and the god, as
an eagle, carried the youth off to Olympus and
made him his cup-bearer
7Ganymede and the Eagle, by Adamo Tadolini, 1823,
marble - Sculpture Gallery, Chatsworth House
8Ganymede and the Eagle, by Adamo Tadolini,
1823 Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England
9Ganymede and the Eagle, by Adamo Tadolini, 1823,
Marble Sculpture Gallery, Chatsworth House
10Battista Lorenzi (1527-1594) Fontana di
Ganimede, Giardini di Bòboli (Firenze)
11Battista Lorenzi (1527-1594) Fontana di
Ganimede, Giardini di Bòboli (Firenze)
12Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) Ganymede Museo
Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
13Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) Ganymede, 1545-47
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
14Ganymede with the Eagle of Zeus, Roman 2nd c. AD,
King's Library, British Museum, London
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
15 Turkey, Work by Giambologna, 1567
Bronze eagle.
Work by Giambologna, 1567
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
(once in the fountain of water games of the
Medici villa of Castello)
16Giambolognas series of sculpted life-size
bronzes of birds, that were originally
commissioned and used to decorate garden grottoes
and fountains in the Boboli Gardens of Florence
and at Pratolino, and the bronze doors of the
cathedral of Pisa
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18For these birds sculptures Giambologna even
invented a special "impressionistic" technique in
wax to recreate the texture and image of their
plumage. This was then carefully and faithfully
translated by skillful casting into the final
bronze versions
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20Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
21Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
22Acquamanile bronzeo - Museo Nazionale del
Bargello, Florence
Acquamanile bronzeo - Pinacoteca Nazionale di
Cagliari
23Charles Gouyn factory - White porcelain group of
Ganymede and the eagle circa 1749-60 sold
56,250
24Ganymed by Hermann Hubacher at Bürkliplatz in
Zürich (Switzerland)
25Vatican peacock - part of the original decoration
of Hadrian's Mausoleum
26Gilded bronze peacock, part of the original
decoration of Hadrian's Mausoleum, Vatican Museums
27Vatican Museums
28Vatican Museums
29Vatican Museums
30Bird in flight by Martin Williams (Stone)
Bronze, signed Hamish Mackie
31Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932) Bird of Peace
(Paloma de la PAZ) National Museum Bogota
32Alfred Jacquemart (18241896) Ornament crowning
the south carriage entrance of the Emperor's
Pavilion on the west side of the Palais Garnier
Paris
33Eagle sculpture on column outside Paris Opera
34Eagle sculpture on column outside Paris Opera
(Palais Garnier)
35Helen Boehm and E. M. Boehm Studios The Bird of
Peace, a porcelain statue of mute swans gifted by
Richard Nixon to The People's Republic of China
during his 1972 diplomatic visit to the country
36The ''Birds of Peace'' sculpture one of three
copies made from master molds that were destroyed
in 1974. Vatican museum
37The intricate and detailed sculpture of the pair
of mute swans took two years to create, and 10
tons of plaster were used to make the master
molds. Some 60,000 sculpted lines make up the
feathers of the swans. Mrs. Boehm stated that the
mute swans represent ''serenity and purity, a
bird that had been associated with peace
throughout history and in mythology.'' She
further noted, ''The mute swan's range is
worldwide it came to the shores of America
during the 19th century. Perhaps its most
important characteristic is that it speaks with a
soft voice.' Of the three pairs of porcelain
mute swan sculptures, one set remained at the
White House, one set was given to Mao Tse-Tung
during Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China, and
one set was auctioned by Sotheby's of London to
benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The swans were
purchased by an anonymous donor for 150,000 --
the highest price ever paid for a 20th-century
porcelain sculpture. The sculpture was
subsequently presented to Pope Paul VI by the
Archdiocese of New York
38Tokyo's Aoto Heiwa Park
39Maiden of Peace a mable sculpture from the
People's Republic of China at Nagasaki Peace Park
in Nagasaki in Japan
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41Maiden of Peace a mable sculpture from the
People's Republic of China at Nagasaki Peace Park
in Nagasaki, Japan
42Text pictures Internet All copyrights belong
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Foisoreanu
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