Bronze sculpture and history

Bronze is paid for works of art perfect, is in all the holes narrow shape, which is perfectly reproduce all the details of the delicate sculpture modeled. And 'soft under the instrument of the worst and work outstanding overhang.

The Greeks were not exceeded in the bronze culture. The two masterpieces of Greek sculpture are: the Zeus of Artemision (National Museum) and the charioteer of Delphi (Delphi Museum). The Romans took the number ofbronze statues, who came from Greece and made thousands. They worked in bronze for furniture and doors, windows and chandeliers, and some have at Herculaneum and Pompeii were recovered.

During the Middle Ages consisted mainly of bronze utensils, church ornaments and home. In the early Renaissance, Italian sculptors produced beautiful bronzes of various kinds. The most important are the doors of Ghiberti's Baptistery in Florence and sculpturesDonatello, Giovanni Bologna, Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo, and Cellini. A series of monumental portraits of some of the largest bronzes English monarch. France was the 18th Century gold for its popular furniture covered with bronze mounts. The most important contemporary sculptors who worked in bronze include Rodin, Epstein, Brancusi, and Lipchitz. The typical description of the Renaissance Bronze Shedding Autobiography of Cellini (1558-1562) can be seen.

Bronze is the most famous cast metalSculpture, cast bronze is often as a "bronze".
The value of the bronze in use, is not beneficial for the conservation of sculptures, bronzes grand old men are only a few survived, but many of them were to merge the production of military weapons during the war or to make new sculptures in honor of the winner. Some stones and ceramic works were to come through the centuries, even if they are already in fragments.

History

The civilization deeplyold world bronze for art, which began working with the introduction of the alloy for weapons with edges. The life-size figures were scaled by the Greeks. There is a small number, for example, in situations of Nice, an example is sea water preserved bronze now as "The athletes victorious note, 'careful efforts to make the museum where it is now necessary. Other Roman bronze statues have survived.

The ancient Chinese in 1200 BC, is known for the section of the moldAnd lost wax casting process and the Shang Dynasty was large ships through the decorations covering complicated rituals survived in tombs. During the long period of Egyptian art dynasty invented little lost-wax bronze figurines were produced in large numbers, thousands of figures were kept in the collections of the Museum. Since then, the art of bronze should continue to thrive.