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Mythological composition
Spas Kirichev
Sculpture - 29 x 32 x 13 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 12.6 x 5.1 inch
£2,270
Attention !!! Escargot
Willy Charps
Sculpture - 37 x 22 x 9 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 8.7 x 3.5 inch
£1,998
Jamais sans ma soeur
Sandrine Plante
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
£3,115
Academia (half life)
Paige Bradley
Sculpture - 147.3 x 55.9 x 106.7 cm Sculpture - 58 x 22 x 42 inch
£21,314
Family 1 (#146) BVE
Boaz Vaadia
Sculpture - 50.8 x 53.3 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 20 x 21 x 15 inch
£45,908
Birds of a Feather
Jennifer Small
Sculpture - 58 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
£2,670
Il vestito è al servizio del corpo, 2020
Paolo Ambrosio
Sculpture - 99 x 46 x 22 cm Sculpture - 39 x 18.1 x 8.7 inch
£2,670
Le teckel et la tortue
Claudio Locatelli
Sculpture - 15.5 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 6.1 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
£2,581
Madame Dutilleul
Eric Valat
Sculpture - 140 x 115 x 60 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 45.3 x 23.6 inch
£22,250
Bust of a Horse
Domenico Mazzone
Sculpture - 20 x 37 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 14.6 x 4.7 inch
£6,764
King of Things
David Middlebrook
Sculpture - 177.8 x 55.88 x 60.96 cm Sculpture - 70 x 22 x 24 inch
£24,593
the wise man
Christian Dugardeyn
Sculpture - 90 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
£22,250
Tigre chassant
José-Maria David
Sculpture - 48.5 x 60 x 22 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 23.6 x 8.7 inch
£15,130
Reading Together Sky & Misty SIII
Petra Dorst
Sculpture - 38 x 24 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.4 x 7.9 inch
£3,516
Pêcheurs au filet
Martien Rouart
Sculpture - 37 x 34 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 13.4 x 8.7 inch
£8,455
CYPRUS MUSEUM COLLECTION Maternité 1981 Bronze Motherhood
Pavlina Pavlides
Sculpture - 70 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
£17,355
Triunfante
Pablo Serrano Gómez
Sculpture - 74 x 59 x 25 cm Sculpture - 29.1 x 23.2 x 9.8 inch
£3,382
Madeleine Méditante
Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis
Sculpture - 53 x 16 x 29 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 6.3 x 11.4 inch
£8,544
L'oiseau rare
Antoine Halbwachs
Sculpture - 51 x 31 x 15 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 12.2 x 5.9 inch
£3,115
Balloon with a Couple
Ruth Bloch
Sculpture - 93 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 36.6 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
£7,378
The Love of Pain (Pink and Silver)
Dan Baldwin
Sculpture - 25 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.1 inch
£3,525
Richterstuhl (Judge's chair)
Lothar Fischer
Sculpture - 19 x 7 x 8.7 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 2.8 x 3.4 inch
£2,136
Diminishing Return (Edition 5 + AP)
Riyas Komu
Sculpture - 50.8 x 22.86 x 48.26 cm Sculpture - 20 x 9 x 19 inch
£9,916
Espace Temps
Nathalie Decoster
Sculpture - 250 x 250 x 15 cm Sculpture - 98.4 x 98.4 x 5.9 inch
£40,050
Cubist with three faces
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Sculpture - 22 x 14 x 11 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 5.5 x 4.3 inch
£2,314
Itinérances
Franceleine Debellefontaine
Sculpture - 38 x 14.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 15 x 5.7 x 3.1 inch
£4,272
The Music Flies
Igor Tcholaria
Sculpture - 39.5 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 15.6 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
£8,900
Torse en bronze coulé
José Luis Fernández
Sculpture - 31 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
£1,762
L’aube
Jacques Coquillay
Sculpture - 75 x 44 x 37 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 17.3 x 14.6 inch
£10,680 £9,612
There was always love
Adnan Dogan
Sculpture - 45 x 29 x 18 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11.4 x 7.1 inch
£4,450
The little self made man
Víctor Hugo Yáñez Piña
Sculpture - 27 x 13 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 5.1 x 4.3 inch
£4,272
Passo di Danza
Giuseppe Mazzullo
Sculpture - 12 x 4 x 3.2 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 1.6 x 1.3 inch
£1,602
Venus of Willendorf
Michal Zaczynski
Sculpture - 33 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
£1,468
Statue of a woman (1)
Fabrizio Savi
Sculpture - 45 x 14 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 5.5 x 3.9 inch
£1,157
Girl in the bath
Boris Svinin
Sculpture - 75 x 38 x 30 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 15 x 11.8 inch
£88,110 £79,299
Jeune victoire série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 36 x 16 x 26 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 6.3 x 10.2 inch
£3,026
Satyr with Young Faun on his Shoulders
Aurelio Mistruzzi
Sculpture - 31 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
£3,560
Bronze omnia vincit amor
Andréa Giorgi
Sculpture - 28 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
£6,230
Man on the Rock
Giuseppe Migneco
Sculpture - 22 x 30 x 23 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 11.8 x 9.1 inch
£4,094
Dante Meets Virgil
Pericle Fazzini
Sculpture - 33 x 25 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 13 x 9.8 x 1 inch
£8,010
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Calme et le silence bronze
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 40 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
£1,193
Circus Acrobats
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 49 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
£1,423 £1,282
Les espaces de Penseur de Rodin
Jesus Campos
Sculpture - 30 x 14 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.5 x 5.9 inch
£872
Divina Proportia
Dirk De Keyzer
Sculpture - 58 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
£11,081
La toilette - Sculpture bronze
Plaf
Sculpture - 15 x 12 x 8.5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 4.7 x 3.3 inch
£1,335
Le Patriarche N°1
Michel Bassompierre
Sculpture - 12 x 13 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 5.1 x 4.3 inch
£3,204
Caleidoscopio
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
£3,827
Bronze Sculpture for Sale
The technique used in the creation of bronze sculptures has changed very little since Antiquity. The sculptor begins by fashioning the subject in wax, then covers it with clay, pours on the bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, then breaks open the terracotta, leaving only the bronze object behind. Highly valued by sculptors, bronze is a robust and resistant material that fairs well outside. Using wax to create the initial mould allows for a high level of detail on the final sculpture, unlike steel sculpture. Certain nuances in color can be produced through the use of patinas.
These qualities explain why bronze is one of the oldest materials to be used by humans. Indeed, bronze tools were used in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China around 2800 BC.
In Mesopotamia, near to present-day Iran, bronze was used to depict animals in sacred art. In Egypt, it was was used to personify the gods, and also to create small sculpture statues placed in the tombs of the deceased. However, it was Ancient Greece, where craftsmen began to sculpt human figures and deities with remarkable realism, that gave bronze its prominent place in the history of art. Many pieces of work were imported to Rome, where the production of bronze sculptures developed. Bronze sculptures soon began to decorate the theatres and the homes of the rich. Admiring the skills of the Greeks, the Romans began ordering sculptures from merchants and craftsmen, who made copies of the moulds of the statues.
With the birth of Christianity, evangelisation and the building of churches became the priorities, and bronze creations were replaced by stone sculptures for decorating churches. It was only in the 14th century that masterpieces were rediscovered during excavations of Italian archaeological sites. A century later, Brunelleschi and Ghiberti set the Renaissance in motion by decorating the doors of the Florence Baptistery in bronze. Donatello, inspired by ancient Roman sculpture, was the first to excel in the art of expressing emotions through bronze sculptures, followed by Verrocchio, his pupil (and master of Leonardo da Vinci). Although the practice spread throughout Europe, it was mainly focused in Italy, where sculptors competed to obtain the most convincing results.
During the 16th century, the Flemish Jean de Bologne established himself as the undisputed master of bronze. He was the most copied artist in the 17th century, and it is partly due to him that the bronze sculpture spread across Europe. In Italy, production of bronze sculpture was fairly constant, irrespective of the period. In France, on the other hand, this technique depended on the political regime. When Louis XIV invited sculptors to his court (essentially to decorate Versailles) demand for bronze reappeared as a form of courtly art.
Bronze sculpture underwent a resurgence during the 19th century, with Rodin and Camille Claudel, and then with Cubism and the Art Deco movement. Bronze is an expensive, heavy material and costly for collectors to buy and its use has become less prevalent in the 20th and 21st centuries, but some artists use it nonetheless: Giuseppe Penone, Alberto Giacometti with his strange silhouettes, the compressions of César Baldaccini, Philippe Pasqua's butterflies and still life sculpture can all be seen on Artsper!
How is a bronze sculpture made?
Bronze sculptures are made from a series of wax molds, into which the sculptor pours melted bronze to create the final sculpture.
Why is bronze used for sculptures?
Bronze is used for sculptures because it expands just before it hardens, resulting in the accentuation of fine details. The bronze then shrinks slightly as it cools down, which makes it easy to remove the cast.
How can you tell if a sculpture is bronze?
You can tell if a sculpture is bronze by testing if a magnet sticks to it, as iron is magnetic. Bronze also does not have the ability to rust, so a bronze sculpture will not have signs of corrosion on its surface.