A ROMAN BRONZE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN, HADRIANIC, CIRCA EARLY 2ND

A BRONZE HEAD OF A MAN

brazen head, or bronze head was a legendary in the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such as Roger Bacon, who had developed a reputation as wizards. Made of brass or bronze, the male head was variously mechanical magical.

Bronze Head Of King Seuthes III Size 4"L x 4"W x 9"H. NiFAO

The Bronze Head was discovered by British soldiers in 1897 during a military expedition to Benin City, which was then part of the British Empire. The piece was brought back to Britain and has been displayed at the British Museum since 1899. The Benin Bronze Head is one of Africa's most famous works of art and is considered a masterpiece of.

A ROMAN BRONZE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN, HADRIANIC, CIRCA EARLY 2ND

Brass (heavily leaded zinc-brass) head cast using the lost wax (cire perdue) technique. The head is a little under life size and is made in a naturalistic style. It has a headdress, suggesting a crown, of complex construction. The main tubular section of the crown runs around the head in a three-layer composition. The upper layer has a band of four horizontal rectangles representing flat.

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Sanxingdui bronze heads with gold foil masks. Sanxingdui (Chinese: 三星堆; pinyin: Sānxīngduī; lit. 'Three Star Mound') is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China.Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the twelfth-eleventh centuries BC.

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Editha Platte, Musa O. Hambolu. British Museum Press, 2010 - Art - 64 pages. Part of the British Museum's Objects in Focus series, this compact book offers a well illustrated guide to the crowned bronze head unearthed at Ife in Nigeria in 1938. It places the head in its historical and artistic context, and introduces the reader to the religious.

Ancient Bronze Head From Nigeria Photograph by Holton Fine Art

Bronze Head from Ife. This Bronze Head from Ife is one of eighteen sculptures unearthed in 1938 at Ife in Nigeria, the religious and former royal center of the Yoruba people. The Yoruba people regard Ife as the place where their deities created humans. It was made in the thirteenth century, well before any European contact with the local.

Bronze head of a king of the Yoruba kingdom of Ife, ca. late 14th/early

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Bronze Head from Ife Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

It was a bronze cast head, which Mr Axford recognised as coming from Ife, a Yoruba kingdom in what is today south-western Nigeria. Original Ife bronze heads, of which only some 20 survive, are.

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21st December 2023, 09:03 PST. Bristol City Council. The axe heads are several thousands of years old. Two early-Bronze Age axe heads found in a field in Wiltshire have been classed as treasure.

Bronze head of a youth Greek Classical The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze head from an over-life-sized statue of Augustus: the head is broken through the neck but is otherwise in an excellent state of preservation. There are four fragments of plaster from the head. The eyes are inlaid, with glass pupils set in metal rings, the irises of calcite. The eyebrows are plastically rendered. The emperor's head is turned to his right, with the pronounced twist to the.

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From Olympia Bronze cauldrons set on tripods or conical stands were among the most spectacular votive gifts dedicated in Greek sanctuaries from the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. Cast-bronze griffins' heads often decorated the cauldron rims; they projected outward from the shoulder of the vessel on long necks made of hammered or cast bronze. Some of the dedicated cauldrons were colossal.

A FINE BRONZE HEAD OF BUDDHA , THAILAND, SUKHOTHAI PERIOD, 15TH CENTURY

The Bronze Head from Ife, or Ife Head, is one of eighteen copper alloy sculptures that were unearthed in 1938 at Ife in Nigeria, the religious and former royal centre of the Yoruba people. It is believed to represent a king. It was probably made in the fourteenth-fifteenth century C.E. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged the offensive and patronising Western.

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The Meroë Head, or Head of Augustus from Meroë, is a larger-than-life-size bronze head depicting the first Roman emperor, Augustus, that was found in the ancient Nubian site of Meroë in modern Sudan in 1910. Long admired for its striking appearance and perfect proportions, it is now part of the British Museum's collection. It was looted from Roman Egypt in 24 BC by the forces of queen.

Cast Bronze Head

The figure size can be varied from 10 to 40 cm height. Materials for the cast and the pedestals can be varied. Figurs can be made of bronze, pre-patinated bronze, new silver or raw bronze. Pedestals can vary between american valnut, teak or mahogni. Write us if you have questions or for more options. [email protected]. Interested?

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The 'Benin Bronzes' (made of brass and bronze) are a group of sculptures which include elaborately decorated cast plaques, commemorative heads, animal and human figures, items of royal regalia, and personal ornaments. They were created from at least the 16th century onwards in the West African Kingdom of Benin, by specialist guilds working for.

Midcentury African Woman Bronze Head Sculpture, Austria, 1950s For Sale

There is a range of bronze head sculptures for sale on 1stDibs. Each of these unique bronze head sculptures was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, bronze and wood.Find 291 antique and vintage bronze head sculptures at 1stDibs now, or shop our selection of 11 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished furniture.