Sculptures by: 1) George Minne - Belgian Symbolist sculptor, 1866-1941 2) Dying Gaul - The Dying Gaul (in Italian: Galata Morente), better known as the Dying Galatian or the Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture that is thought to have been executed in bronze, which was commissioned some time between 230 BC and 220 BC by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians in Anatolia. 3) Pierre-Charles Simart - French sculptor, 1806-1857 4) Bertel Thorvaldsen - Danish Neoclassical sculptor, ca.1770-1844 5) Benvenuto Cellini - Italian Mannerist sculptor and goldsmith, 1500-1571 6) Praxiteles - Greek sculptor, 4th Century B.C / Apollo Sauroktonos (lizard-slayer) - Roman copy from the 1st--2nd centuries AD after the Greek original from the 4th century BC, located at the Louvre Museum, Paris. 7) Giambologna - Flemish-born Italian Mannerist sculptor, 1529-1608 8) Antonio Canova - Italian Neoclassical sculptor, 1757-1822 9) Michelangelo Buonarroti - Italian High Renaissance/Mannerist painter and sculptor, 1475-1564 10) Donatello - Italian Early Renaissance sculptor, ca.1386-1466 Soundtrack: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827, German composer and pianist) - Violin Concerto, mvt 3 - Rondo. Allegro (D major) - fragment Cadenza by Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998, Soviet composer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke Violin: Gidon Kremer (b.1947, Latvian violinist and conductor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidon_Kremer Thanks for watching!

• published: 29 Nov 2013
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