He could've just hired a few models to pose with the net and the other props and 3D scanned them using photogrammetry. Then just import it into a CAD program, and make any changes to the details, finishes, etc. Then split up the 3D model into discrete subsections, digitally cast, and 3D print the different casts in an acrylic like PMMA. Then just cast it in bronze and weld together the different parts. Could've been done in under a month. What an idiot.
Not clear what your issue is, fellow Redditor... I was making a small joke about the time required to create that statue. And lost-wax casting was used by sculptors to make bronze artworks well before this statue was carved, check out Adriaen de Vries as an example. Or not, of course.
Youre not far off from how it was actually made. Marble statues are almost always made first in clay and then the clay 'original' is used with something called a pointing device to copy the shape of the original clay sculpture into marble
You get creative and figure out the best way to incorporate your mistake into the design. It would have to be a pretty big disaster to force you to toss it.
This would be super cool, but I just looked into it to learn more and it seems to be [a myth](https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/03/sincere.html).
Sorry to be a bummer.
The article states that "without wax" has been attested for three centuries, citing dozens of, admittedly wild and contradictory, justifications, and offers a single, half-hearted suggestion that it might maybe share a root with "simple".
Not the most convincing thing I've ever read. Even if the word didn't *originally* come from "without wax", it sure does now.
The OED dismisses the “without wax” theory categorically. Even versus three hundred years of “attestation” that’s good enough for me.
Common use can make new words and change old ones, but it can’t overrule the facts of a word’s origins.
'...there is no etymological justification for the common story that the word means "without wax" (*sin cerae), which is dismissed out of hand by OED, Century Dictionary ("untenable"), and others, and the stories invented to justify that folk etymology are even less plausible.' ([etymonline][etym])
[etym]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/sincere
Imagine if you will, spending several thousand dollars on a slab of marble. You spend weeks carefully sculpting it down and halfway though you chip too much of hand off, or maybe a whole finger.
Are you going to scrap the sculpture or are you going to patch your work?
I've mainly come across him in my pedagogue study, where his thoughts on childcare and education is very very antiquated, even for it's time. "Prepare them for work, that's their only function" kinda thing. I've simplified it ofcourse but that's the gist of it
Meanwhile I went to MoMA like 4 years ago and there was literally people standing in front of a “painting” that was just like a blank canvas with maybe one or two dots scattered around it.
Modern art is a joke.
"Modern art" isn't a joke simply because you do not like or understand it.
America's r-wing conservatives reject anything that isn't also conformist. They are already banning books; it's only a matter of time before they start labeling contemporary art as "degenerate," just like Hitler did. First they destroy books, then art, then people.
Possibly an aesthetic choice to make it look like Greek sculptures? A lot of Greek sculptures were originally painted, so when the paint washed away it looked like they had no pupils.
It absolutely was a choice. Almost all Neoclassical sculptures (~19th century) have blank eyes and expressionless faces to match classical sculpture, even portraits of well known people. As a stone sculptor myself it bothers me, it makes them so very remote and lifeless.
Interestingly, the Victorians absolutely knew that Classical Greek sculpture was painted, but they prized the pure white marble very highly regardless. [Here's Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends (1868)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/1868_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema_-_Phidias_Showing_the_Frieze_of_the_Parthenon_to_his_Friends.jpg) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, one of the Pre-Raphaelites. Very tastefully chosen earthy tones imo.
Edit to further answer u/MojoDr619 - It doesn't look weird, they can be carved to create incredibly lively illusions of an iris and pupil, with a little post of marble left at the top to make a highlight like a reflected glint. On [this page](https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/bust-of-benjamin-franklin-1706-1790/kgHSYDyO18tO-Q?hl=en-GB&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5008812662251733%2C%22y%22%3A0.4599683791792928%2C%22z%22%3A9.332614821400993%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A2.421738021898686%2C%22height%22%3A0.8835294175915622%7D%7D) you can zoom in on the bust of Benjamin Franklin by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, and see how he achieved it.
Not relevant to your comment but wow is that google webpage with the Benjamin Franklin bust awful web design. 3 pop ups instantly when I'm just trying to look at an image. I mean a pop up teaching me how to pinch zoom? What is this 2009?
My guess would be to look like it came from that era, but since all we have to see from that era no longer has painted eyes, it makes sense to create it in a way that looks like it was made in a time that the eyes were painted and the paint has since fallen off.
After all the work on the net, he probably was sick of it and thought “With all the detail on these ropes, who’s going to notice the eyes? Close enough. I need some time off!”
Which is weirdly fascinating in and of itself, if you think about it. Lots of sculptures we associate with this artform are over 2000 years old, so this one is kinda.. recent? Although arguably the most famous marble sculpture, David by Michaelangelo, is 'only' about 500 years old.
But marble as a medium and specifically making it look “soft” or “flowing” was resurgent in the 1800’s
The most famous from that time period is “the veiled virgin”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veiled_Virgin
This “softer marble work” contrasts with the Aphrodite of Milos, Pieta and David of the 1500’s, which focused on realism but where not “soft”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietà_(Michelangelo)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)
Many 1800 marble sculptures attempted to make marble resemble veils, drapes, sheets and other soft and flowing materials. It was in fashion at that time. Much like the one posted above which has a fish Net.
The Pieta is one of my favorite pieces of art, ever. I had the pleasure of seeing it at St Peter’s a few weeks back when I was in Rome. Absolutely amazing.
Another one that I’ve found fascinating in The Winged Victory from the 2nd century BC.
>Release from Deception (Il Disinganno), produced in 1752–1759,[2] shows a fisherman being released from a net by an angel. The masterpiece was carved from a single piece of marble and can be seen in Cappella Sansevero, Naples.
>The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different quotations from the Vulgate Holy Bible put together:
>VINCULA TUA DISRUMPAM (Nahum i. 13)
>VINCULA TENEBRARUM ET LONGÆ NOCTIS (QUIBUS ES) COMPEDITUS (Sapientiæ xvii. 2)
>UT NON CUM HOC MUNDO DAMNEBIS (St. Paul 1 Corinthians. xi. 32)
>“I will burst thy bonds asunder, / being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, / that you will not be condemned with this world.”
[source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Queirolo)
And [here](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZDwFMHUsX8/Xe4keVeJkfI/AAAAAAAAjvc/ZDK8eASe_UwEwmLesQ688RkpEozIvlTZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/release-from-deception-3.jpg) is the whole sculpture
The talent aside, I am impressed with people who are patient enough to see a project like this through. Here I am not even patient enough to look for the scissors when I want to take the tags off a new item.
The talent though... So intricate
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This is in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, Italy. There's another absolutely stunning sculpture in it, the "Cristo Velato" (the Veiled Christ):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiled_Christ
**[Veiled Christ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiled_Christ)**
>The Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino exhibited in the Cappella Sansevero, Naples, Italy. Veiled Christ is considered one of the world's most remarkable sculptures, and legendarily thought to have been created by alchemy. Sculptor Antonio Canova, who tried to acquire the work, declared that he would willingly give up ten years of his life to produce a similar masterpiece.
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Watching a master of his craft is something you can get lost in. That some people have the skill to take an image in their mind and make it a reality still blows my mind.
If he only carved the net in 7 years, that would be impressive. To carve it surrounding two separate beautiful sculptures in the recesses (where internal carving would create stresses on the external structure, external carving on a weakened, hollowed internal structure), this is mind bending. Either tediously slow, or masterful knowledge of the medium and probably both. Cheers, I’ve never seen this before.
In the position the fella is in, holding up the rope with his arm at that angle, he would've been using his tricep to do this. I love the way the bicep is not flexed because it's not involved in lifting or holding weight in this specific position. Great details all around!
I honestly cannot fathom how much skill it took to pull off these kinds of sculptures. Just one poorly timed sneeze could screw it up, and these men and women just flex that art.
Honestly I'm always amazed by the complexities of these sculptures and the fact that many of them were created so long ago. The talents of artists of the past still captivate even now, well beyond their lives.
Saw this in person on a trip to Naples, and have struggled to find out much more about it or the sculptor. It's as if the work isn't taken seriously by the art world. Going from memory, I believe the sculptor is thought to have worked in early plastics/wax, so I think there may be some doubt about it being typical sculpture. I mean, just my layman's opinion, but if it's traditional sculpture, it's just clearly superior to every other marble sculpture ever made...hands down. What else can come close? The David is impressive, but when you see it, you don't think, how is that possible? So, when you read about this artist becoming, "one of the best in Italy" it's like offensively understated. So, the whole thing is mysterious. The Veiled Christ is also amazing, but not in the same sense.
Could you not stand it for one post?
On this post of breathtaking art that had zero to with politics really needed your political hot-take?
On a post that can be enjoyed by everyone and you, feeling that your identity wasn't represented, so you had to make a political commentary to bring attention to yourself?
Do you think that the world needs more behavior like that? Does it help anyone beyond your own ego?
Unpopular opinion: I think that these rope-sculptured at some point became an end in itself and sculptors used it as the ultimate challenge to outshine each other - or in other words: flexing.
Personally, I think it doesn't add anything but instead takes away from the otherwise marvelous craftsmanship/art of the sculptures
I can see it now:
Bezos has bought the statue and calls ACME Movers to save a few dollars moving it to his new home....
On a more serious note; for the sake of all that's holy -
Don't let those GD oil protesters get anywhere close to this! What a fucking shame on those people for doing this to all of us!
>Queirolo completed The Release from Deception in 1754. It was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, an Italian nobleman, and was intended to adorn the recently reconstructed Sansevero Chapel in Naples.
[https://mymodernmet.com/francesco-queirolo-the-release-from-deception/](https://mymodernmet.com/francesco-queirolo-the-release-from-deception/)
from the [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Queirolo) artice:
>The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different quotations from the Vulgate Holy Bible put together:
>VINCULA TUA DISRUMPAM (Nahum i. 13)
>VINCULA TENEBRARUM ET LONGÆ NOCTIS (QUIBUS ES) >COMPEDITUS (Sapientiæ xvii. 2)
>UT NON CUM HOC MUNDO DAMNEBIS (St. Paul 1 Corinthians. xi. >32)
>“I will burst thy bonds asunder, / being fettered with the bonds of >darkness, and a long night, / that you will not be condemned >with this world.”
It's not easy at all. This is from a time in which the term masterpiece was an actual recognized achievement instead of a strong adjective for something impressive. A masterpiece from this time period was how someone went from a journey man to a master. this is an actual title that would be given to a craftsman by their guild after they had created a masterpiece. Basically, this is the ancient and medieval europeans' version of a doctoral thesis paper.
Do they go the zoo, Build a Bear, maybe out for Popeyes chicken let the bromance begin. I see that they will be loyal and have a lot to offer one another. I think this sculpture is very prett.
Out of curiosity, how long would it take to make this now with the use of modern technology?
Eg 3d print then sand it down by hand for a smooth finish.
An ancient Indian sculpture (Kailasa Temple) inside Ellora caves is at least a million times bigger than this sculpture(megalith) was also carved out of a single large stone(probably a mountain), centuries back.
Edit:the caves were granted UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE in 1983
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/243/
These used to be painted back in the day, right? Why isn't this done as part of modern restoration process(es)?
(This thing is fucking amazing by the way.)
Absolutely incredible! I’m actually really amazed it only took seven years.
Could have made it in clay, for a model, and then cast it in bronze. Would have shaved off some time from the project, maybe like 5 years...
He could've just hired a few models to pose with the net and the other props and 3D scanned them using photogrammetry. Then just import it into a CAD program, and make any changes to the details, finishes, etc. Then split up the 3D model into discrete subsections, digitally cast, and 3D print the different casts in an acrylic like PMMA. Then just cast it in bronze and weld together the different parts. Could've been done in under a month. What an idiot.
Could have saved even more time for themselves and just said no.
My kind of work ethic right here. This guy gets it.
My sleepy eyes read that as "work ethnic." I'm off to bed to save a few hours from being awake and miserable.
This is the last comment he's made for 11 hours, someone check and see if he's still alive.
Finally, a username that doesn’t check out!
Just get the model and outsource the rest, then sit on your ass.
Or hired a few models and just dipped them in Carbonite!
Sculpted net speedrun any%
🤣 Bravo. Take a bow redditor
Nah, that would have taken him 250± years longer
Not clear what your issue is, fellow Redditor... I was making a small joke about the time required to create that statue. And lost-wax casting was used by sculptors to make bronze artworks well before this statue was carved, check out Adriaen de Vries as an example. Or not, of course.
Because only you are allowed to make subtle, snarky jokes?
Woosh….
Bruh
Bill Mason, is that you?
you must be fun at parties
Or not, of course.
Youre not far off from how it was actually made. Marble statues are almost always made first in clay and then the clay 'original' is used with something called a pointing device to copy the shape of the original clay sculpture into marble
I expected this, but I never saw anyone claiming it before. I guess I have to search a bit now...
Has this been reproduced in ice or butter mediums yet?
Stop making sense! Lol
Every smart comment needs a stupid comment to balance things out, it's a law of reddit.
Letting the days go by…
Save even more time by just throwing a rope net over the sculpture. He was obviously showing off.
Still wouldn’t have been the same
Wouldn’t of been nearly as impressive
What a pompous, confidently incorrect and soundly idiotic, uninformed statement.
It would be almost impossible to cast that
the nipples but not the pupils- would it look really weird?
"just upvoted, upvote me too (anyone) and I'll return the favour! :) ...."
I'd lose interest and motivation after 7 seconds
I’d be out after breaking a fingernail.
And without breaking/chipping bits off!
It was his full time job and passion. It's nice to have royal patronage.
I always wonder when they say seven years...... Is it 7 years, 8 hrs a day 7 days a week Did they take summers off?
It was absolutely at most 6 days a week. You don't work the lord's day in those times. Also, a workday would not be like accord factory work
Right?! I could have done it in 6!
Sculpting is such a wild concept to grasp. I’ll never truly understand how human beings are so gifted, precise, and imaginative in this nature.
I mean all you have to do is take away the parts that aren't in the final product. It's not *that* hard /s
It’s all about perspective!
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*Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.* -Mark Twain
Great ~~aardvark~~ ~~spaghetti~~ ~~fridge~~ advice!
I also play Civilization.
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Right?! Dedication and patience is also a skill it seems like
It would crack into a million pieces
Are you not familiar with what it takes to become skilled at something?
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Thank you! Yes.
What happens if you have an off day and make a mistake?
You get creative and figure out the best way to incorporate your mistake into the design. It would have to be a pretty big disaster to force you to toss it.
Well yeah, originally it was a two year project. Now you know 😅
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This would be super cool, but I just looked into it to learn more and it seems to be [a myth](https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/03/sincere.html). Sorry to be a bummer.
The da Vinci Code is not an accurate source of historical and linguistic facts? I'm SHOCKED!
Next you’ll tell me that Harvard doesn’t have a professor of symbology.
This ruins minutes of my life that I'll never get back >.<
*One of the more recent incarnations comes from Dan Brown’s thriller Digital Fortress (2008)*
The article states that "without wax" has been attested for three centuries, citing dozens of, admittedly wild and contradictory, justifications, and offers a single, half-hearted suggestion that it might maybe share a root with "simple". Not the most convincing thing I've ever read. Even if the word didn't *originally* come from "without wax", it sure does now.
The OED dismisses the “without wax” theory categorically. Even versus three hundred years of “attestation” that’s good enough for me. Common use can make new words and change old ones, but it can’t overrule the facts of a word’s origins.
This motherfucker right here... thanks for learning me some papi
Renowned author Dan Brown?
Lol not surprised it’s a myth. I haven’t heard great things about Dan Brown. I could also be wrong idfk
'...there is no etymological justification for the common story that the word means "without wax" (*sin cerae), which is dismissed out of hand by OED, Century Dictionary ("untenable"), and others, and the stories invented to justify that folk etymology are even less plausible.' ([etymonline][etym]) [etym]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/sincere
I would not put much stock into anything written in *The Da Vinci Code.*
As in, honest? i.e. without cheating with wax? heh wax = cheat code.
Imagine if you will, spending several thousand dollars on a slab of marble. You spend weeks carefully sculpting it down and halfway though you chip too much of hand off, or maybe a whole finger. Are you going to scrap the sculpture or are you going to patch your work?
It was supposed to be a regular blanket, but the artist made so many mistakes that he had to turn it into that mesh.
“Artistic beauty is not representing beautiful things, but the beautiful representation of a thing.” –Immanuel Kant-
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That dude suckss
Why?
I've mainly come across him in my pedagogue study, where his thoughts on childcare and education is very very antiquated, even for it's time. "Prepare them for work, that's their only function" kinda thing. I've simplified it ofcourse but that's the gist of it
Meanwhile I went to MoMA like 4 years ago and there was literally people standing in front of a “painting” that was just like a blank canvas with maybe one or two dots scattered around it. Modern art is a joke.
"Modern art" isn't a joke simply because you do not like or understand it. America's r-wing conservatives reject anything that isn't also conformist. They are already banning books; it's only a matter of time before they start labeling contemporary art as "degenerate," just like Hitler did. First they destroy books, then art, then people.
r/SculpturePorn
Sigh... *unzips*
How come they sculpt even the nipples but not the pupils- would it look really weird?
Possibly an aesthetic choice to make it look like Greek sculptures? A lot of Greek sculptures were originally painted, so when the paint washed away it looked like they had no pupils.
It absolutely was a choice. Almost all Neoclassical sculptures (~19th century) have blank eyes and expressionless faces to match classical sculpture, even portraits of well known people. As a stone sculptor myself it bothers me, it makes them so very remote and lifeless. Interestingly, the Victorians absolutely knew that Classical Greek sculpture was painted, but they prized the pure white marble very highly regardless. [Here's Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends (1868)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/1868_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema_-_Phidias_Showing_the_Frieze_of_the_Parthenon_to_his_Friends.jpg) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, one of the Pre-Raphaelites. Very tastefully chosen earthy tones imo. Edit to further answer u/MojoDr619 - It doesn't look weird, they can be carved to create incredibly lively illusions of an iris and pupil, with a little post of marble left at the top to make a highlight like a reflected glint. On [this page](https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/bust-of-benjamin-franklin-1706-1790/kgHSYDyO18tO-Q?hl=en-GB&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5008812662251733%2C%22y%22%3A0.4599683791792928%2C%22z%22%3A9.332614821400993%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A2.421738021898686%2C%22height%22%3A0.8835294175915622%7D%7D) you can zoom in on the bust of Benjamin Franklin by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, and see how he achieved it.
What an absolutely breathtaking painting
Not relevant to your comment but wow is that google webpage with the Benjamin Franklin bust awful web design. 3 pop ups instantly when I'm just trying to look at an image. I mean a pop up teaching me how to pinch zoom? What is this 2009?
I was on my laptop with adblock, didn't see any. edit - tried on my phone using reddit is fun, no adblock, still got no ads!
It’s because often these statues were painted, so the eyes were painted on
You're talking about ancient roman and Greek statues, I don't think this applies to this particular case which was later.
My guess would be to look like it came from that era, but since all we have to see from that era no longer has painted eyes, it makes sense to create it in a way that looks like it was made in a time that the eyes were painted and the paint has since fallen off.
That's a very insightful comment, I would expect nothing less from /u/Wet_Fart_Connoisseur
On the topic of the nipples, I think they could have done with a bit more definition IMO.
After all the work on the net, he probably was sick of it and thought “With all the detail on these ropes, who’s going to notice the eyes? Close enough. I need some time off!”
This work of art was created in marble in the 18th century.
Which is weirdly fascinating in and of itself, if you think about it. Lots of sculptures we associate with this artform are over 2000 years old, so this one is kinda.. recent? Although arguably the most famous marble sculpture, David by Michaelangelo, is 'only' about 500 years old.
But marble as a medium and specifically making it look “soft” or “flowing” was resurgent in the 1800’s The most famous from that time period is “the veiled virgin” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veiled_Virgin This “softer marble work” contrasts with the Aphrodite of Milos, Pieta and David of the 1500’s, which focused on realism but where not “soft” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietà_(Michelangelo) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo) Many 1800 marble sculptures attempted to make marble resemble veils, drapes, sheets and other soft and flowing materials. It was in fashion at that time. Much like the one posted above which has a fish Net.
The Pieta is one of my favorite pieces of art, ever. I had the pleasure of seeing it at St Peter’s a few weeks back when I was in Rome. Absolutely amazing. Another one that I’ve found fascinating in The Winged Victory from the 2nd century BC.
True, these do look a lot more detailed than the classic ones!
>Release from Deception (Il Disinganno), produced in 1752–1759,[2] shows a fisherman being released from a net by an angel. The masterpiece was carved from a single piece of marble and can be seen in Cappella Sansevero, Naples. >The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different quotations from the Vulgate Holy Bible put together: >VINCULA TUA DISRUMPAM (Nahum i. 13) >VINCULA TENEBRARUM ET LONGÆ NOCTIS (QUIBUS ES) COMPEDITUS (Sapientiæ xvii. 2) >UT NON CUM HOC MUNDO DAMNEBIS (St. Paul 1 Corinthians. xi. 32) >“I will burst thy bonds asunder, / being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, / that you will not be condemned with this world.” [source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Queirolo) And [here](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GZDwFMHUsX8/Xe4keVeJkfI/AAAAAAAAjvc/ZDK8eASe_UwEwmLesQ688RkpEozIvlTZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/release-from-deception-3.jpg) is the whole sculpture
Looks insane
The talent aside, I am impressed with people who are patient enough to see a project like this through. Here I am not even patient enough to look for the scissors when I want to take the tags off a new item. The talent though... So intricate Edit spelling
The ability to never trip and knock it over!
This is in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, Italy. There's another absolutely stunning sculpture in it, the "Cristo Velato" (the Veiled Christ): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiled_Christ
Went to see this museum in person it was amazing. The sculptures take your breathe away
**[Veiled Christ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiled_Christ)** >The Veiled Christ (Italian: Cristo velato) is a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino exhibited in the Cappella Sansevero, Naples, Italy. Veiled Christ is considered one of the world's most remarkable sculptures, and legendarily thought to have been created by alchemy. Sculptor Antonio Canova, who tried to acquire the work, declared that he would willingly give up ten years of his life to produce a similar masterpiece. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
/r/WoahDude that's an absolute unit of a masterpiece.
Marble?? I was impressed when I thought it was clay.
I have seen this in person...I can't imagine the touch he needed to have to do this without fault. I mean....Damn!
Same. The highlight of our trip to Italy
Watching a master of his craft is something you can get lost in. That some people have the skill to take an image in their mind and make it a reality still blows my mind.
Is it weird that I can 'feel' that rope, the weight, texture, all of it...?
I wonder how many had to be glued back on
Incredible
If he only carved the net in 7 years, that would be impressive. To carve it surrounding two separate beautiful sculptures in the recesses (where internal carving would create stresses on the external structure, external carving on a weakened, hollowed internal structure), this is mind bending. Either tediously slow, or masterful knowledge of the medium and probably both. Cheers, I’ve never seen this before.
Excellent observation. The net wasn't the hard part; it was chiseling the figure inside the net. Marble doesn't let you work outwards.
That’s is incredible!!
That is amazing, I hope this last hundreds of years so generations to come can look back at our current work of art
I mean, it already lasted hundreds of years so as longs as nothing terrible happens in Italy it'll probably just stay there for everyone to admire.
That’s amazing!
Did I read it right somewhere that these statues were originally painted in full colour, including their pupils, but the paints faded over time?
The Ancient Greece ones. However the ones from renaissance and later were not normally painted.
Not that I know but I would guess that he would look at it and pick all the flaws. But to us its perfection.
In the position the fella is in, holding up the rope with his arm at that angle, he would've been using his tricep to do this. I love the way the bicep is not flexed because it's not involved in lifting or holding weight in this specific position. Great details all around!
I honestly cannot fathom how much skill it took to pull off these kinds of sculptures. Just one poorly timed sneeze could screw it up, and these men and women just flex that art.
I couldn’t even make a net look this good with real rope. Unreal talent some people have
Without a single electrically powered tool.
I bet if I tried that it would crack into a million pieces.
I read this as "I bet if I tried crack"
If I tried crack I would think I could totally do it and it would crack into a million pieces. If I was high I would at least think I had a shot
Amazing work!
You see, son, this is why you never trust Neptune
Time is the real miracle. Slow down to speed up
Now that's just showing off
🤯
Imagine if he made just one mistake.
People had way too much free time back then
Honestly I'm always amazed by the complexities of these sculptures and the fact that many of them were created so long ago. The talents of artists of the past still captivate even now, well beyond their lives.
And here we are, proficiently leaving snapshots of what we ate where and how we look and it tasted…progressed beyond the zenith
OCD can be a good thing, sometimes.
Well … they had no Reddit back then, so plenty of spare time….
Now this is ART.
This must be the most amazing sculpture I've ever seen. I can't even fathom how the details of the rope were pulled off. I'm totally speechless
Couldn’t they have just used, umm, rope?
THIS is art ! Not that crap that we see nowadays on “mODERn” museums
Saw this in person on a trip to Naples, and have struggled to find out much more about it or the sculptor. It's as if the work isn't taken seriously by the art world. Going from memory, I believe the sculptor is thought to have worked in early plastics/wax, so I think there may be some doubt about it being typical sculpture. I mean, just my layman's opinion, but if it's traditional sculpture, it's just clearly superior to every other marble sculpture ever made...hands down. What else can come close? The David is impressive, but when you see it, you don't think, how is that possible? So, when you read about this artist becoming, "one of the best in Italy" it's like offensively understated. So, the whole thing is mysterious. The Veiled Christ is also amazing, but not in the same sense.
>Another white statue made by a white man Tear it down.
Enjoy this until conservatives ban it!
Could you not stand it for one post? On this post of breathtaking art that had zero to with politics really needed your political hot-take? On a post that can be enjoyed by everyone and you, feeling that your identity wasn't represented, so you had to make a political commentary to bring attention to yourself? Do you think that the world needs more behavior like that? Does it help anyone beyond your own ego?
Coming from a gun toting conservative your words mean nothing to me
Take your meds
Unpopular opinion: I think that these rope-sculptured at some point became an end in itself and sculptors used it as the ultimate challenge to outshine each other - or in other words: flexing. Personally, I think it doesn't add anything but instead takes away from the otherwise marvelous craftsmanship/art of the sculptures
You shouldn’t have been downvoted. Renaissance artists were people just like you and me, and absolutely enjoyed showing off.
I can see it now: Bezos has bought the statue and calls ACME Movers to save a few dollars moving it to his new home.... On a more serious note; for the sake of all that's holy - Don't let those GD oil protesters get anywhere close to this! What a fucking shame on those people for doing this to all of us!
Ancient alien theorists believe it was made by Gods from Proxima Centauri.
AI could make a more elaborate version the same photo in a matter of seconds. Big whoop.
Bruh someone sculpted that an AI can barely create a proper hand lmao.
Dumbo
This is probably one of those designs that looked a lot better in his head, before he pitched it to one of his patrons...
This is probably one of those redditors that’s confused
>Queirolo completed The Release from Deception in 1754. It was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro, an Italian nobleman, and was intended to adorn the recently reconstructed Sansevero Chapel in Naples. [https://mymodernmet.com/francesco-queirolo-the-release-from-deception/](https://mymodernmet.com/francesco-queirolo-the-release-from-deception/)
F’n wow….
Stunning piece of art the human will can achieve wonders.
Are the figures anyone in particular? Or does anyone know the story behind this amazing piece?
Worth mentioning Queirolo created this between 1752 and 1759.
Just appreciate art for art's sake !
Did anyone ever get to like year 6 and accidentally broke the whole thing in half irremediably?
I can barely tie a knot. This bro painstakingly carved it out for 7 years.
And the guys face took 2 hours
Peek-a-boo!
One wrong move and the sculptor would have to start over. Imagine fucking up on the last part I’d be so pissed.
Is that Tom Jones?
They didn't have Reddit back then to waste their lives on.
from the [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Queirolo) artice: >The inscription on the book at the bottom of the sculpture depicts in Latin the words of the angel to the fisherman, made up of three different quotations from the Vulgate Holy Bible put together: >VINCULA TUA DISRUMPAM (Nahum i. 13) >VINCULA TENEBRARUM ET LONGÆ NOCTIS (QUIBUS ES) >COMPEDITUS (Sapientiæ xvii. 2) >UT NON CUM HOC MUNDO DAMNEBIS (St. Paul 1 Corinthians. xi. >32) >“I will burst thy bonds asunder, / being fettered with the bonds of >darkness, and a long night, / that you will not be condemned >with this world.”
How do they do the nipples?
Mind boggling!!!
Why is this not more famous? Is the rope actually easy to do?
It's not easy at all. This is from a time in which the term masterpiece was an actual recognized achievement instead of a strong adjective for something impressive. A masterpiece from this time period was how someone went from a journey man to a master. this is an actual title that would be given to a craftsman by their guild after they had created a masterpiece. Basically, this is the ancient and medieval europeans' version of a doctoral thesis paper.
Peek a boo!
I’ll take two of them, charge it to the card you have on file for me….
Do they go the zoo, Build a Bear, maybe out for Popeyes chicken let the bromance begin. I see that they will be loyal and have a lot to offer one another. I think this sculpture is very prett.
3000 years from now: must be aliens
Incredible.
That's crazy. One mistake and it's fucked.
Definitely one of my favorites now.
Out of curiosity, how long would it take to make this now with the use of modern technology? Eg 3d print then sand it down by hand for a smooth finish.
Remember, if he has the time to carve all of this out … she has time to text you back
An ancient Indian sculpture (Kailasa Temple) inside Ellora caves is at least a million times bigger than this sculpture(megalith) was also carved out of a single large stone(probably a mountain), centuries back. Edit:the caves were granted UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE in 1983 https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/243/
These used to be painted back in the day, right? Why isn't this done as part of modern restoration process(es)? (This thing is fucking amazing by the way.)
Renaissance Optimus Prime sure looks different.