The Met: Sculpture

On October 7 we did the Met's sculpture tour. There are sculptures all over the museum, in large halls and various corridors and numerous galleries, and we had seen many sculptures already in our visits to the Greco/Roman department, Egypt, China, and so on. This particular tour included only a few later European and American sculptures. After the tour we spent another couple hours wandering in the decorative arts areas, to be covered in a later post. 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Diana, cast 1928; the original much larger
Diana stood atop the old Madison Square Gardens building
(demolished, 1925); this is a half-sized cast of the 2nd version...
it's a long story...

Domenico Guidi, Andromeda and the Sea Monster, 1694;
originally in Rome, but spent more than two centuries at
Burleigh House, in the UK

Moving right along, Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms
of Continuity in Space; conceived 1913, cast 1950; part of
the early 20th century Futurist movement

Clodion, Model for the Balloon Monument, 1784; intended to
commemorate the first manned flight, by the Mongolfier brothers,
Paris, 1783; the larger sculpture was never realized...

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and His Sons, 1865-1867,
Paris; not a pretty story

Sort of a cannabilistic Sophie's Choice

Frederic-Auguste Bartholdy, Liberty; painted terra cotta
model, 1875; larger one out in the harbor