#16th century sculpture

[oncanvas]

A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone 55 ½ in. (141 cm) high

#art #sculpture #statue #skeleton #skull #memento mori #macabre #1560s #16th century #limestone #french #vanitas

[maertyrer]

Castillian School St. Sebastian

Carved and polychromed wood, 122 x 38 x 21 cm, ca. 1530 - 1540

#castillian school #saint #sebastian #martyr #martyrdom #sculpture #16th century #rennaisance

[courtingwonder]

Michelangelo - Moses (c. 1513-1515)

#michelangelo #renaissance #1500s #16th century #art history #art #sculpture #sculptures #statues #statue #moses #culture #beautiful #beauty

[amatesura]

Carved wooden head of a christian martyr, ivory teeth, with severed head showing accurate anatomical detail. The spinal cord, oesophagus and vertebrae are intricately carved and clearly visible. From the chapel of an abbey in Champagne, France, 16th century.

#religion #art #religious art #16th century #france #wooden sculpture #art history #catholicism #*

[tragediambulante]

Bacchus, Jacopo Sansovino (Jacopo Tatti), 1515

#art history #art #italian art #aesthethic #greek mythology #ancient greece #roman mythology #bacchus #dyonisus #jacopo sansovino #jacopo tatti #bargello #bargello museum #florence #16th century #sculpture #marble #statue

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

16th century tomb sculpture

#16th century tomb sculpture #memento mori #skeleton #sculpture #tomb #tomb art #skull #art #16th century #xvi century #random

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Weaving Tool.

Place of origin: Peru

Date: A.D. 200-1520

Medium: Bone

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #16th century #16th century art #weaving #weaving tools #bone #peru #peruvian #south america #a.d. 200 #a.d. 1520

[earlymodernbarbie]

Bronze statues of Juana I of Castile and Archduchess Margaret of Austria in the Empty Tomb of Emperor Maximillian I

#juana of castile #juana i of castile #joanna of castile #Joanna I of Castile #Margaret of Austria #tomb #art #bronze sculpture #bronze statue #northern renaissance art #northern renaissance #renaissance art #renaissance #sixteenth century #16th century art #16th century #art history #history of art #maximilian i #holy roman empire #holy roman emperor

[neapolis-neapolis]

Giovanni da Nola, Altare della Madonna della Neve (1536), Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore, Napoli.

#Giovanni da Nola #napoli #naples #art #art history #sculpture #marble #renaissance #16th century

[taf-art]

Portuguese Soldier (16th c.). Edo people, Benin kingdom, Nigeria.

#sculpture #art #16th century #nigerian art #seen in person #mfa

[disease]

"DRINKING HORN" [ARQUEBUSIERS] attrib. ARENT CORNELISZ COSTER | 1547 [silver (metal) | 38 × 61 cm.]

#arent cornelisz coster #sculpture #decorative art #amsterdam #16th century #silver #drinking horn #art #u

[misespinas]

Saint Mary Magdalene by Gregor Erhart (1515-1520) // The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485-1486)

#art history #art #paintings #paintings of women #Aphrodite #venus #mary magdalene #saint mary magdalene #the birth of venus #sculpture #sculptures #15th century #15th century art #16th century #16th century art #art analysis #Tempera #wooden sculpture #Italian Renaissance #renaissance #Sandro Botticeli #Gregor Erhart #gothic sculpture #gothic art

[a-sculpture-a-day]

Angel from a Crucifixion group, Antonio Begarelli, ca. 1534, marble, Berlin, Bode Museum.

#sculpture #art history #renaissance #mannerism #angel #religious art #16th century #marble

[lionofchaeronea]

Ivory double bell (egogo) from the Benin kingdom in present-day Edo State, Nigeria, depicting the oba (king) with his arms upheld by two attendants, possibly high priests. The oba wielded the egogo during the Emobo rite that concluded the Igue festival, using its sound to repel troublesome spirits. Artist unknown; early 16th century. Now in the Brooklyn Museum. Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum.

#art #art history #Africa #African #African art #West Africa #West African #West African art #Nigeria #Nigerian art #Kingdom of Benin #Benin art #sculpture #ivory #ivory carving #African religions #16th century art #Brooklyn Museum

[amatesura]

Memento Mori ca. 1520

#memento mori #death and the maiden #16th century #art #sculpture #*

[tragediambulante]

David, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1501-04

#art history #art #italian art #aesthethic #16th century #michelangelo buonarroti #david #david and goliath #statue #sculpture #florence #firenze #galleria dell'accademia #homoerotic art