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[โ€“] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

Some of these artists are so remarkable - truly masters of their craft to turn marble into cloth, flesh and sinew. I also refer 'winged victory of samothrace', 'the rape of prosephina', 'laocoon' and, more recently, the contemporary guy who makes realistic pillows out of marble.

[โ€“] SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

feet ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿคค๐Ÿคค๐Ÿคค๐Ÿคค๐Ÿคค๐Ÿคค

[โ€“] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

In this economy?

The sculptor must've looked at all those statues that have cloth draped over bodies and said "I can do you one better".

[โ€“] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It looks like a wet paper towel to me... It's close, though.

[โ€“] medgremlin@midwest.social 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you know the name of this sculpture or the name of the artist?

[โ€“] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Looks like its "Nymph" by "Giovanni Battista Lombardi"

And yes ofcourse everyone is thirsting over the toes in every thread i have seen.

As far as i can tell it was last auctioned at Sotheby for ยฃ187500 = $245000

https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/949y5q/nymph_detail_giovanni_battista_lombardi_marble/

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/19th-20th-century-sculpture-l17230/lot.58.html

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

To hell with your toes, I'm lusting over that water. That's fucking witchcraft, it is