An infinite imagination, an unlimited talent, can transform a hard and cold marble into a silk shawl, a feather pillow or a sad look. The emotions that cannot be expressed by words can spring to life in the hands of a master sculpture. In this issue, we have compiled a number of the most realistic and impressive sculptures that had been transformed from marble into marvelous fabric folds, veins, muscles and sad eyes hundreds of years ago.
Here are the men who shape marble and their works:
The Rape of Proserpina – Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1621-1622)
The year 1621.. The Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was 23 years old when he made the sculpture of the famous’ Persephone ‘Kidnapping’, which has altered the perception of the statue in our minds and is being exhibited at the Roman Borghese Gallery today. Pluto’s touch to the body of Proserpina is so realistic that Bernini, who gives the stone the effect of flexibility and softness of human flesh, immediately affects those who see it.
Here are the well-known phrases Gian Lorenzo Bernini wrote about his own work, which make us feel the sculpture as if it is a living human: “I conquered marble! I made it as flexible as wax. This means that the sculpture is no different than a picture.”
Raffaele Monti ‘The Veiled Vestal’, Giovanni Strazza ‘The Veiled Virgin’ and Antonio Corradini ‘Chastity / Veiled Truth
Raffaele Monti ‘The Veiled Vestal (1846-1847)’, Giovanni Strazza ‘The Veiled Virgin’ and Antonio Corradini ‘Chastity / Veiled Truth’ (1752) are among the sculptures that transform a stiff material like marble into a silk looking tissue with transparent feather light effect. These tulle-like veins and silk fabric-like marble curves are the products of talented hands. Considering the primitive conditions of the days when these masterpieces were made in the hands of sculptures who were able to give soft and transparent effects to marble, we can not help but compare the advanced conditions of our day.
Ugolino and His Sons / Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1857-1860)
A masterpiece that makes you feel the feeling of fear and helplessness to your marrow…
The work of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux named “Ugolino and his sons”. It is not possible to see the mental pain, hunger and frustration of Ugolino in his eyes, eyebrows, in his interwoven toes, in his tense body made of marble.
“Freedom of the spell” / Francesco Queirolo (1757)
One of the most magnificent extant works of marble…
“Release from Deception”, the most famous work of the Italian sculptor who lived between 1704 and 1762, is exhibited in San Severo Chapel in Naples. Napoleon Francesco Queirolo was the only master of his work. Francesco Queirolo succeeded in realizing a marble fishnet from a single marble block, while the other sculptors could not accomplish this without joining small marble pieces. Aren’t the procession, texture and breakdown of marble nets wonderful?
Bust of Maria Duglioli Barberini, Giuliano Finelli, 1626.
The marble, which can be seen as a restrictive material due to its hardness, cannot, of course, stop the master artists.
This art piece, made by Giuliano Finelli in 1626 and exhibited today at the Louvre Museum in France, is catching the eye with detailed workmanship and a realistic look. It is not possible to notice that the lace on the collar of the figure’s dress is handled finely with great mastery. In this work, which is an incredible example of workmanship, marble is treated like a lace. This is an incredible example of workmanship.
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