Bronze sculpture depicting head of Neapolitan street urchin - late 19th century

Small bronze sculpture depicting the God of Love made between the 18th and 19th centuries by Claude Michel, also known by the pseudonym Clodion. The sculpture depicts a curly-haired ...

Piccola scultura fiorentina in bronzo raffigurante un satiro del XVI secolo. Le figure mitologiche greche e romane dei Satiri o Fauni sono note per avere caratteristiche umane e ani...

Scultura in gesso raffigurante testa di uomo degli anni '60. La scultura rappresenta il ritratto di un uomo maturo con lineamenti marcati, notiamo infatti delle profonde rughe e un'...

The sculpture carved in polychrome wood, depicts an angel standing on a pedestal of clouds, his left hand on his chest and his right arm raised toward heaven. The figure with an ext...

Scultura in bronzo di Giuseppe Franzese dei primi del 900 che raffigura la testa di un giovanotto su una base di marmo. Le misure della scultura sono: Altezza cm 30 Larghezza cm...

Beautiful lost wax cast bronze sculpture on a white marble base. It is signed by V. Cinque (1852-1929), part of the Neapolitan school of the early 1900s. It depicts the classic Ne...

Scultura bronzo - raffigurazione fanciulla - basamento marmo nero - art. ignoto. Descrizione : Bellissima scultura rappresentante una fanciulla ...

De Martino is a classical artist, known for the production of sculptures of small bronze busts, in particular (“scugnizzi”, fishermen, commoners) with realistic features. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples under the guidance of Stanislao Nome, Gioacchino Toma, and Achille D ’Orsi, from whom he learned the ability to portray the most realistic details using them on very young subjects. Very young he moved to Paris where he performed small sculptural groups, exhibiting frequently at the "Paris Salon" where he won the prize of the Louvre Museum for the bronze work Le Pêcheur de criquets (The Fisher of locusts, Naples, private collection). Returning to Naples, he returned to a socialist realism and produced sculptures depicting characteristic Neapolitan types, especially urchins, “street urchins”, little boys and young fishermen. From 1916-1931 he was master of the sculptor Angelo Frattini. Later the dominant theme of his production was childhood, in particular thoughtful, sad, gaunt children were represented in his works, on whose faces the signs of abandonment and suffering emerged. De Martino became known with the nickname of “The sculptor of children”.