ART 2014

Love in stone.

Love in stone.

April 18 is celebrated worldwide on the International Day for Monuments and Sites. And as you have this holiday is almost in the middle of spring, the most romantic time of the year, AdMe.ru decided to gather in his review of the tender, passionate, exquisite sculptures, each of which tells its own story of love.

Marie de Medici Fountain

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Marie de Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens is considered one of the most romantic places in Paris. The central figures – young lovers Acis and Galatea. According to legend, the Cyclops Polyphemus was in love with the beautiful Galatea, but she rejected him because she loved no less beautiful Aqeedah. Then the enraged Polyphemus crushed his rock. But Galatea managed to turn his unfortunate lover in a clear river. The fountain depicts lovers at the moment before the crash over them already hangs embittered Polyphemus, but they still do not see it and are unaware of the danger.
Cupid and Psyche

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This is one of the most famous sculptures by Antonio Canova, the master of the XVIII century. Canova was inspired by the great love story told by Apuleius in the “Golden Ass.” Crossed lovers almost ruined the envy of the most beautiful goddess. Venus ordered Psyche to descend into the underworld of the vessel with the beauty, forbidding her to look at him. Beloved Cupid violated the prohibition, opened the lid and was covered by a magic sleep. Kiss of Cupid Psyche returned to life.

This moment sculptor depicted in marble. Cupid just descended from heaven and touched the ground. Wings as if God kept in the air, and Psyche, still half asleep, rises to meet her lover. Canova created two masterpieces on the same story: the first copy of the sculpture in the Louvre (Paris), and the second, the changes in the Hermitage.
Venus and Adonis

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If the “Cupid and Psyche” Canova everyone knows something about many of his statues are often overlooked. And among them are some great monument of love, such as “Venus and Adonis”. Goddess fell in love with the beautiful Hunter and her lover Mars, angry, turned into a wild boar and killed Adonis while hunting. Venus was inconsolable, and after much debate, it was decided that the young man will spend six months in the realm of the dead, and six months – with his lover.
Again, Cupid and Psyche

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Italian Sculpture Tsintsinatusa Barozzi (mid XIX century) reflects another part of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, almost the beginning of his: Beauty Psyche, who could not find a husband among mortals, became the wife of the mysterious invisible creatures. For the first time she could see him asleep when her sister persuaded to highlight the Amur. In this paper Barozzi captures the moment when Psyche admires the beauty of his sleeping wife, the first time he saw him.
Rape of Proserpine

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Marble statue of “The Rape of Proserpine by Pluto” Gian Lorenzo Bernini began to build in 1621, he was only 23 years old. He captured the moment when the god of the underworld only momentarily appeared on the surface to kidnap the young daughter of Ceres. Sculpture riddled expression, fingers Pluto literally dig into the thigh of Proserpine, and inadvertently forget that you look at a marble statue. “I won the marble and made it flexible like wax, and thereby was able to some extent to combine sculpture with painting” – wrote Bernini.

Kiss

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Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Kiss” originally was called “Francesca da Rimini”, in honor of her depicted on the Italian noble ladies of the XIII century, whose name is immortalized by Dante’s Divine Comedy (The Second Circle, Fifth song). The lady fell in love with her husband’s younger brother Giovanni Malatesta, Paolo. When they read the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, found them, and then killed her husband. On the sculpture can be seen as Paolo holding a book. But in fact, the lovers do not touch each other’s lips, as if alluding to the fact that they were killed without committing sin.
The Eternal Idol

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This is another work by Auguste Rodin (1889), sensual and dramatic composition, inspired by personal relationships sculptor with his young pupil Camille Claudel. Rodin and Claudel met in 1883, when he taught sculpture to her and her friends. About a year later she began working in his studio and became his source of inspiration, a model student and lover. Master gave his beloved part of the job – the result was they really work overall, but his mood bleak. A man stands in front of a girl on her knees, not daring to look into her eyes. Another moment ago, she hugged him, but takes away his hands and sorrowful look. Their eyes are closed – they do not see the future.
Forever Together

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This sculpture – one of the monumental cemetery tombstones Milan, there were more than one hundred and forty years. Residents of the city in advance to buy a place for burial, commissioned sculptor and architect projects gravestones or crypts, depending on taste, money and fashion trends. The work of an unknown author for family crypt is a pair that can separate even death. Their eyes are closed, but the arms are still tender. It seems as if one day they wake up from this dream as young and loving as they were once.

Loneliness of the soul

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The work of American sculptor Lorado Taft (1914) – is one of the most touching story of love and loneliness in stone. The composition is centered around the column and is a love quadrangle – each of its members facing the two partners, but competitors can not see each other because of the column. Taft said himself explained the concept of sculpture as follows: “It is based on the idea that, no matter how closely tied us the circumstances, we never really did not know each other.”
Adam and Eve

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This statue is located in the park of Villa Montalvo, California. Its author – a contemporary American sculptor Gail Koulfild. It is very difficult to determine who the couple, if you look at the sculpture in front, all the more so in the park no name plate composition. In order to solve the puzzle, you need to get around the statue: the back side you can see the snake gets to him who holds the teeth in the apple of knowledge.