marble carving

canon of body proportions

 

Polykleitos [5th century BCE]. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity.

father of sculpture

- Polykleitos [5th century BCE]

bargin

Michelangelo's fee for Julius II's tomb was 10,000 ducats, which in current dollars approximates 1.4 million USD. 

turning point in American sculpture

Admiral David Farragut [1801-1870] Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens [1848-1907], New York City.

resolution

Self Portrait, 1924

"Simplicity is complexity resolved."

- Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi [1876-1957] led the way for modernist sculptors.