"We don't let people touch for good reason, but it fascinates me what that means."
Curator of European sculpture and decorative arts Ian Wardropper on the profound relationship between touch and sculpture.
Connections: Touch
Curator of European sculpture and decorative arts Ian Wardropper on the profound relationship between touch and sculpture.
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After a composition by Alessandro Algardi
ca. 1690
Clodion (Claude Michel)
ca. 1780–90
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)
1566
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
ca. 1518–1524
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
and Pietro Bernini
ca. 1616–17
Unknown
probably shortly before 1704
Ignaz Joseph Würth
marked 1781
Balthasar Permoser
ca. 1680–85
British
third quarter 17th century
Antoine Denis Chaudet
1794
Andrea Briosco, called Riccio
ca. 1510–20
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
ca. 1770–83
Greek
5th century BCE or later
Jean-Léon Gérôme
ca. 1890
Restituted
80–30 B.C.