On the occasion of exhibition “Astarte.La dea dei mille volti” held at Museum Near East Egypt and Mediterranean Sapienza University Rome, a head female figurine from Ramat Rahel gained renewed interest. The belongs to Judean Pillar Figurine, kind artifacts made in Southern Levant during 1st millennium, often associated with deity, sometimes Astarte or Asherah, connected fertility domestic cults...

Statues and statuettes of reclining banqueters were dedicated at several Ionian sanctuaries during the sixth century B.C.E., beginning with the Geneleos Group at the Samian Heraion. Though common for small bronze and terracotta sculpture, this figure type is not otherwise attested in monumental dedicatory sculpture and is rare as architectural decoration elsewhere in archaic Greece. This articl...

Mr. Gardner's article on Degas's sculpture, "Arabesques in Bronze," in the January, 1946, issue of the Metropolitan Museum Bulletin raises several interesting and controversial questions. Mr. Gardner contends that modeling became the painter's "principal amusement as the years closed about him." Had he studied the present writer's catalogue of Degas's work in sculpture more carefully, he might ...

Abstract The tomb of the Burgundian duke Philip Bold in Dijon, designed by Haarlem-born sculptor Claus Sluter, holds a key position development Western funerary art, especially on account lively and moving depiction cortège weepers around tomb. In this monument it is they who provide an example to their beholders – namely, how mourn deceased ruler. Not only do these expressive statuettes encour...