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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Kemp, Alexander,     Furness, Frank,     Occupation -- Art     Portrait male -- Gougon, Jean     Portrait male -- Palissy, Bernard     Portrait male -- Ghiberti, Lorenzo     Portrait male -- Donatello,     Portrait male -- Bandinelli, Bartolommeo     Portrait male -- Pisano, Giovanni     Portrait male -- da Maiano, Benedetto     Portrait male -- Robbia, Luca Della     Portrait male -- Bontemps, Pierre     Portrait male -- Fischer, Peter     Dress -- Historic     Dress -- Accessory     Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia     Architectural component     Relief     Sculpture

Hemicycle Decorative Plaque (Sculptors), (sculpture). Artist:  Kemp, Alexander, sculptor. Furness, Frank, architect. Title:  Hemicycle Decorative Plaque (Sculptors), (sculpture). Other Titles:  Decorative Plaque (Sculptors), (sculpture). Dates:  ca. 1877. Medium:  Terra cotta. Dimensions:  Relief: approx. 3 ft. x 3 1/2 ft. x 6 in. Description:  One in a group of six light-colored relief plaques depicting great artists of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance that are installed on the front of the building. This relief is the fourth one from the left and it depicts from right to left: Jean Gougon (kneeling), Bernard Palissy, Lorenzo Ghiberti (standing), Donatello standing in profile, Bandinelli, Giovanni Pisano, Benedetto da Maiano, Luca Della Robbia, Pierre Bontemps and Peter Fischer. Unless specified the figures are seated. Subject:  Occupation -- Art -- Sculptor Portrait male -- Gougon, Jean -- Full length Portrait male -- Palissy, Bernard -- Full length Portrait male -- Ghiberti, Lorenzo -- Full length Portrait male -- Donatello, -- Full length Portrait male -- Bandinelli, Bartolommeo -- Full length Portrait male -- Pisano, Giovanni -- Full length Portrait male -- da Maiano, Benedetto -- Full length Portrait male -- Robbia, Luca Della -- Full length Portrait male -- Bontemps, Pierre -- Full length Portrait male -- Fischer, Peter -- Full length Dress -- Historic -- Renaissance Dress Dress -- Accessory -- Hat Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Architectural component Relief Sculpture Owner:  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad & Cherry Streets, Facade, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 Remarks:  This theme is taken from Paul Delaroche's Hemicycle in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. References:  Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985. Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 145, 156. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 156. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 88320043   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 88320043 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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