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Degas, Hirst &
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Degas, Rodin, Gilbert, Leighton, Moore and Hirst. They are some of the finest sculptors in the world and currently subject of an exhibit at Burghley House. |
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Heavenly Bodies is an exploration of artists interpretation of the nude from antiquity to the present day. |
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Each sculpture was selected to reflect the attitude of its time, such as the Bronze Age, ancient Rome, the Medieval world, the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Victorian era or the Modernism and Abstraction of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Title: Christ on the Cross, c. 1490
Medium: Oak, with Traces of Polychrome Painting
Dimensions: Height: 193 cm
Image Courtesy: Victoria and Albert Museum
Thirty significant works by eminent sculptors including Edgar Degas, Sir Alfred Gilbert, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Frederic Leighton, and Henry Moore are included. These were drawn from private and public collections in Britain as well as from the Burghley collection.
Sir Albert Gilbert
Title: Eros, c. 1891-1893
Artist: Sir Alfred Gilbert RA (British 1854-1934)
Medium: Aluminum on Bronze Scroll Base
Dimensions: Height: 239 cm
Image Courtesy: The Fine Art Society
Piccadilly Circus in London, a popular tourist spot, as well as the junction between five streets is home to a Gilbert designed statue of Eros. In 1893 the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain was erected to recognize the charitable works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. The fountain has a Alfred Gilbert winged sculpture on top. That statue is sometimes called The Angel of Christian Charity but it's more familiarly known as Eros. Gilbert actually designed a sculpture of Eros' twin brother Anteros, the god of love avenged (or love returned).
Burghley House
The Cecil family were long supporters of the Crown. William Cecil's father served Henry VIII and Edward VI. William was Principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth I and later became her Lord Treasurer. For his service to the Tudor Queen in 1571 he was given the title Lord Burghley.
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The Cecil family have called Burghley House home for over 400 years. It is one of the grandest houses dating from the 1st Elizabethan age. It's history, architecture and art collections are equally impressive. William Cecil was the architect for most of the design. The house was built over 32 years from 1555 to 1587. |
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Heavenly Bodies: Sculptural Responses to the Human Form
Burghley House:
through October 29, 2006