Funeral Monuments

Before this time there was little demand for portraits sculpted from life: most sculpture was commissioned for funeral monuments. Skilled and confident, Rysbrack achieved almost inst...

Renowned for his exquisite craftsmanship, he sculpted plaster and marble busts, notably adorning animal funeral monuments in prominent cities such as Paris, Milan, Bern, and Locarno.

In the same year he designed a funeral monument for his teacher Vanni, who had just passed away.

During the same year she designed a funeral monument for her master Vanni, who had just passed away.

It was his friend Auguste Bartholdi who made his funeral monument on which is engraved the sentence: "He tore fire from the sky".

It was his friend Auguste Bartholdi who made his funeral monument on which is engraved the sentence: "He tore fire from the sky".

It was his friend Auguste Bartholdi who made his funeral monument on which is engraved the sentence: "He tore fire from the sky".

The present church retains many fittings from the earlier churches, especially funeral monuments from the mid-17th century onwards.

; at 27 he won medal of first class with David Vainqueur, after which he began a long career of important commissions, including the funeral monuments of Louis-Philippe and Marie Ame...

Possibly part of a larger interior funeral monument or from a funeral cart. English, circa 1850, age related craquelure to the painted surface along with knock, abrasions and discol...

Cupids are also represented on funeral monuments to represent the soul, and are also associated with the Fine arts and Science, auxiliaries of Virtue and Vice.

Juggling between the baroque and the classical, he made the portraits of Diderot, Voltaire and then realised the famous funeral monuments for the Marshal of Saxony (Strasbourg, 1776)...

In fact, these are copies, on a reduced scale and made for visitors who came to Rome following the Grand Tour, of the two lions which are part of the funeral monument to Clement XIII...

It was his friend Auguste Bartholdi who made his funeral monument on which is engraved the sentence: "He tore fire from the sky".

; at 27 he won medal of first class with David Vainqueur, after which he began a long career of important commissions, including the funeral monuments of Louis-Philippe and Marie Ame...

B. was therefore one of the most active artists in the monumental and patriotic sculpture of post-Risorgimento Italy: alongside these monuments and others, including those, in Turin,...

Before moving to America, he had much recognition in Italy. He had created war, funeral and city monuments in twenty-six Italian cities.

Before moving to America, he had much recognition in Italy. He had created war, funeral and city monuments in twenty-six Italian cities.

The unfinished work was the subject of a poem by Matthew Prior, to the Right Honourable the countess dowager of Devonshire, on a piece of Wissin's; whereon were all her grandson's pa...

Italian born Edgardo Simone (1890-1948) was a classically trained sculptor who created war, funeral and other public monuments in over 26 Italian cities.