Historical Religious Statues

A collection of diverse historical religious sculptures in various materials. Subjects range from biblical figures to deities, showcasing intricate designs and craftsmanship.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia32. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

S JUAN EVANGELISTA - /101. Author: MARTINEZ MONTAÑES, JUAN. Location: MONASTERIO DE SAN ISIDORO DEL CAMPO, SANTIPONCE, SEVILLE, SPAIN.

Visjnoe, anonymous, 600 - 930 Vishnoe, bronze. One foot is missing. Indonesia bronze (metal) Vishnoe, bronze. One foot is missing. Indonesia bronze (metal)

Een man.A separate figure from a Diorama of Gerrit Schouten, representing a man with beard, standing, from the front. Havely crossed their arms. A walking stick in his left hand. Feet are missing.

Christoffel..

Statuette 18th century or earlier China. Statuette 61647

Abruzzo, Chieti, Chieti, Museo Nazionale di Antichita, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

TERRACOTA FEMINA. ROMANO. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Marte, figura de bronce procedente de Roma. Museo de Arte Medieval de Vic.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia32. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Janiform Herm with Young Male and Female Fauns. Roman, 1st century B.C. - 1st century A.D.. Sculpture. Bronze

Fragment, Medium: linen, silk, metal Technique: painted, embroidered, Ornamental figure of St. George standing on the slain dragon. Made of coarse linen, painted and enriched with metal in thread and strips. At the bottom, the initials S.G. and the date, 1749 (). Now backed with red damask and finished at edges indicating cut from earlier work, probably 17th century., 1749, embroidery & stitching, Fragment

Een man, c. 1810 - in or before 1839 A loose figure from a diorama by Gerrit Schouten, representing a man with a beard, standing, seen from the front. His arms crossed over each other. A walking stick in his left hand. Feet are missing. Suriname paper. glue. paint (coating) painting Suriname

Anonymous. "Applique figure: man fig, leaning head". Slightly waxed wood. Between 1470 and 1500. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 71433-16 Waxed wood, applique figure, figure, man, leaning head

Panels from an organ case in the church of Saint Vitus in Naarden.These ten figures adorned the medieval organ in the church of Saint Vitus in Naarden. Each figure holds a weapon and a coat of arms on a strap. Some are dressed as knights with a breastplate and a helmet, others as princes or noblemen. They may represent the Counts of Holland. All the shields would have originally been painted.

Figure of Attendant Deity holding a Mallet China. Figure of Attendant Deity holding a Mallet. China. Mud, gilded and painted. probably Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Sculpture

Male character mingqi. Terracotta and traces of polychromy. Paris, Cernuschi museum. 78843-3 Asian art, beyond, belief, figurine, mingqi, funeral object, model character, funeral rite, statuette

Standing Gilt and Lacquered BronzeBuddha

Verna Tallman, Carved Wooden Indian, c 1938 Carved Wooden Indian

Civil Official (Wenguan) 701 CE-800 CE China. Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes .

Holy Knight (St Adrian), c. 1500 - c. 1515 He stands on a ground with the right leg slightly forward and with the bent arms in front of him, he holds the right hand up. On the curly hair, which hangs down to the shoulders, a beret, with a second head cover diagonally afterwards, the hanging tires in front of the chest are tied together. He wears armor and malia; A pels collar, which is covered with both arms, hangs off the shoulders and hangs from behind to the ground. A belt runs from right hip to left. Utrecht oak (wood) gilding He stands on a ground with the right leg slightly forward and with the bent arms in front of him, he holds the right hand up. On the curly hair, which hangs down to the shoulders, a beret, with a second head cover diagonally afterwards, the hanging tires in front of the chest are tied together. He wears armor and malia; A pels collar, which is covered with both arms, hangs off the shoulders and hangs from behind to the ground. A belt runs from right hip to le

DAMA EN BRONCE TRIANGULAR - VELADA - PROCEDENTE DE DESPEÑAPERROS. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Hall beer of Hout, fragment of the timepiece in the Stadhuistoren van Middelburg, Anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1699 Hell beer of Hout, excerpt of the timepiece in the Stadhuistoren van Middelburg. wood (plant material) Hell beer of Hout, excerpt of the timepiece in the Stadhuistoren van Middelburg. wood (plant material)

Male character mingqi. Terracotta, brown glaze, traces of polychromy. Paris, Cernuschi museum. 78843-10 Beyond, belief, figurine, mingqi, funeral object, male character, model character, funeral rite, statuette

DAMA DE BAZA - ESCULTURA IBERA - SIGLO IV AC - DESCUBIERTA EN 1971. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Bust of a Man Hendrik de Keyser (1565-1621), Hendrick de Keyser (I), 1606 The head, used to the right, shows beard and clad, pretty short cut hair and a somewhat fleshy nose. Over a piece of clothing, which appears at the neck, it carries a wambuis closed with buttons that has a raised collar with notches. Under the shoulder valves with paves applied to it, the band -shaped limit of the bust starts, which partly and partly turns into a mascaron with a curl. At the rear on the upper edge in the still unbaked clay, upside down, engraved ano 1606. With corresponding pedestal (BK-NM-4192). Amsterdam terracotta (clay material) The head, used to the right, shows beard and clad, pretty short cut hair and a somewhat fleshy nose. Over a piece of clothing, which appears at the neck, it carries a wambuis closed with buttons that has a raised collar with notches. Under the shoulder valves with paves applied to it, the band -shaped limit of the bust starts, which partly and partly turns into a masc

Cast Iron Ornament. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 42.8 x 23.3 cm (16 7/8 x 9 3/16 in.). Medium: graphite and watercolor on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Austin L. Davison.

Tobacco Store Figure. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 35.8 x 28 cm (14 1/8 x 11 in.). Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eugene Croe.

Tuscany Siena Montalcino Museo Civico3. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Entire manuscript. Manuscripts. Post-medieval: Sculpture and ceramics from local workshops (2nd half 12th century; Sienese maiolica; 14th century weapons German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster.Reduced version of the large statue of Laurens Jansz Coster in Haarlem by the sculptor Louis Royer. Coster is leaning against a tree trunk while he shows the public the pressure letter a in his vast right hand, and hold a book in his left hand.

Abruzzo, Chieti, Chieti, Museo Nazionale di Antichita, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Statue of a Phoenician mother-goddess. Artist: Unknown

Saint Sebastian 17th century Italian Probably used as a reliquary in a private chapel.. Saint Sebastian. Italian. 17th century. Silver, partly gilt. Sculpture-Miniature

Greek statuette of Artemis goddess of hunting, found at Ephesus, Turkey dated to 2nd - 1st Century BC

Warrior shield. Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD) terracotta China (North), Shaanxi Province

Brass plaque from Benin, Nigeria, West Africa. the British Museum London. Edo peoples, 16th century AD From Benin, Nigeria. There are over nine hundred plaques of this type in various museums in England, Europe and America. Many of the plaques now in The British Museum were collected during the British Punitive Expedition in 1897. They are thought to have been made in matching pairs and fixed to pillars in the Oba's palace in Benin City.

Warrior 7th-8th century China. Warrior 45852

Female Callot dwarf modeled ca. 1715-20, decorated ca. 1730-35 Meissen Manufactory German. Female Callot dwarf 199877

Sculpture of wood, figure from a group, c. 1400 - c. 1950 Wooden sculpture. Figure from a group. wood (plant material) Wooden sculpture. Figure from a group. wood (plant material)

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1937. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Stanley Mazur.

Abruzzo Chieti Chieti Museo Nazionale di Antichita20. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Exterior views of part of the former Villa Frigeri, which along with a neighboring palazzo, houses the Museo Nazionale di Antichita. Views also of the gardens, fountain (17th century) and the restored interior. The so-called "Capestrano Warrior" (5th century B.C.) is found in the Antiquities core collection under Men, Youths, Warriors--Stone--Etruscan, Italic. Hutzel views include statues, funerary monuments, portrait busts and mosaics, many of which were excavated from Alba Fucens. Hutzel paid particular attention to the colossal statue of Hercules (late Hellenistic); the funerary temple reliefs of Lucius Storax; various nudes, torsos and heads, including the portrait bust of Agrippina Minore and the sepulchral portrait relief of Lucius Poditius (1st century A.D.); gravestones with inscriptions and bas-reliefs; Roman coins; bronze figurines (mainly warriors); and bronze vessels, utensils, helmets and ornaments

Statuette late 18th century China. Statuette. China. late 18th century. Ivory, wood. Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Ivories

Standing Figure 1st-8th century Mezcala. Standing Figure 313071

Figurine of Garuda. unknown, sculptor

Official Standing on High Base 9th century China. Official Standing on High Base 52549

'Figurine of a Grenadier with a Rifle'. Workshop of V. Y. Grachev. Russia, Second half of the 19th century. Dimensions: 25x10 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Ka-aper lcalled 'Sheikh El-Beled'. ca. 2465 BC. Work also known as 'The Headman of the Village', though his real activity was priest assistant. Sycamore wood. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Sculpture on wood. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. CAIRO. Saqqara.

Angel with Vase, by Urbano di Pietro da Cortona, 15th Century, marble. Italy: Tuscany: Florence: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore Museum. Whole artwork. Statue angel wings jug amphora dress/clothes podium pedestal marble

Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, is a main character in the novel Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'en. China.

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 58.7 x 39.8 cm (23 1/8 x 15 11/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Harry King.

Italy, Bologna, Monte Acuto Ragazza, Bronze statue depicting female youth praying

Figures, Sculptures and other Historical Exhibits, Old Museum on Pleasure Garden, Berlin, Germany 1020926327

The Sultanganj Buddha, 500-700. Artist unknown.. Cast by the lost-wax technique on a clay core, this 6th to 7th Century bronze statue was excavated by E B Harris, a railway engineer, at Sultanganj, the state of Bihar, in northern India during the course of railway construction in 1862.

France. Loire Valley. Blois. Castle. Gargoyles

St Constantine, 1879. Sir Edward Burne-Jones (d.1898). Full length figure dressed as a Roman warrior, with left hand grasping hilt of a sword, while holding standard pole in his right hand. Design for St Helen's Church, Welton, Yorkshire, England.

Photo courtesy of the Ernst Barlach Foundation Guestrow

Palace Guardian. India, Gujarat, Kachchh (Kutch), 19th century. Sculpture. Sandstone with traces of paint

Kneeling boy 16th-17th century German. Kneeling boy. German. 16th-17th century. Sandstone. Sculpture

Statuette late 19th century China. Statuette. China. late 19th century. Ivory. Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Ivories

Eastern Antiquities. Parthian and Seleucid periods. Statue of bearded warrior. Bronze. Levant. 3rd BC-3rd AD. Louvre Musem. Paris. France.

Gaspard de Coligny 18th century Jean-Claude-François-Joseph Rosset. Gaspard de Coligny 200664

Italy, Apulia, Taranto, The Berlin Goddess (statue representing a Goddess on her throne)

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 28.9 x 22.2 cm (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, and heightening on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.

Stained Glass Fragment 1200-1215 French. Stained Glass Fragment 467270

A sitting Creole, c. 1810 - in or before 1839 A loose figure from a diorama by Gerrit Schouten, representing a Creole man, sitting to the left. His hands rest on his knees. He wears a blue and white checkered robe with a red wrap over it with a blue and a white trim on the underside. He is barefoot. Suriname paper. glue. paint (coating) painting Suriname

David with the Head of Goliath. Artist: Bartolomeo Bellano (Italian, Padua 1437/38-1496/97 Padua). Culture: Italian, Padua. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 11 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 4 7/8 in., 9.7 lb. (28.6 × 13.3 × 12.4 cm, 4.4 kg). Date: 1470-80.This is a key work in the early Renaissance development of bronze statuettes in northern Italy. Its creator, Bartolomeo Bellano, was a disciple of Donatello's, as is documented by a payment in connection with that master's Judith Slaying Holofernes (ca. 1459, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence).1 His independent work began with a bronze statue of Pope Paul II in Perugia (1466 - 67, now lost) and a series of Old Testament subjects in relief for the choir screen of the basilica of San Antonio (Il Santo) in Padua (1484 - 90), which features small-scale figures standing out in high relief from their backgrounds. As we know from Giorgio Vasari's biography, he went on to execute a number of small metal figures for the pope and for others, and he has been recognized

Princely Female Figure, c. 1500. Nepal, early 16th Century. Bronze; overall: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.).

Ikona: Św. Mikołaj Możajski. nieznany warsztat rosyjski (1700-1970), factory

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia24. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Bronze figurine of Mars the ancient Roman god of War

Design for a statue of Paulus Potter, Eugène Lacomblé, 1860 - 1880 Delft clay Delft clay

Museo Archeologico Concordiese with finds from the Roman period, medieval old town, Portogruaro, Veneto, Friuli, Italy, Portogruaro, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Virgin Mary. Unknown Neapolitan artist. 17th century. Polychrome sculpture. National Museum of Fine Arts. Valletta, Malta.

Primitive Bust. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 48.8 x 36.1 cm (19 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Sullivan.

Philip the Good. Duke of Burgundy. 1419-1467.

Cigar Store Indian. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 44.7 x 30.6 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Sullivan.

Lazio Roma Rome SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Museum60. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Ceramic fragments, sculptural fragments, fresco fragments, inscribed tomb markers. Houses one of the best collections of Malagan medieval ceramics for casting wall monuments, copies of which are housed in campanile. Specific Location: Museum Antiquities: Ceramic fragments, sculptural fragments, architectural fragments Object Notes: Basilica has separate record and is filed separately. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Drum player. Terracotta with glaze. Paris, Cernuschi museum. 78847-26 Asian art, old ceramic, covered, email, musical instrument, musician, character, porcelain, terracotta emaillee, tricolor

Buddhist Divinity ca. 1715-20 Meissen Manufactory German. Buddhist Divinity 205265

Saint George. Anton Eberhardt; Austrian, active 1760. Date: 1755-1765. Dimensions: 48 × 35 in. (121.9 × 88.9 cm). Lindenwood. Origin: Austria. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Sculpture of a seated captive. Wadi Hammamat green breccia (Egypt) Rome I-II century AD. Body found in Rome in 1767 but the head and hands do not belong to the original statue.

Saint Adrian. Netherlands or Lower Rhine area, circa 1490. Sculpture. Oak

Janus helmet mask from the Congo, Songye. The Songye people were well-known Zappo Zap wood carvers who are renowned for making ceremonial masks, power figures, and other ceremonial items. Dated 19th Century

Statue of Vincent van Gogh, created by Ossip Zadkine in 1961

Ancient Near East: Neo-Sumerian, Ur III dynasty (2150-200 BC). Gudea (c2144-c2124 BC) ruler of city-state of Lagash in southern Babylon. Seated figure in Diorite. Paris, Louvre.

Figure of a civil official 7th-8th century China. Figure of a civil official. China. 7th-8th century. Earthenware with pigment. Tang dynasty (618-907). Tomb Pottery

Carthaginian Vase Fragment. Unknown

Carthaginian Vase Fragment. Unknown

Carthaginian Vase Fragment. Unknown

Monkey Statuette. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.9 x 22.2 cm (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 9 3/4" high; base: (approx.) 6 3/8" long; 3 3/8" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Frank Fumagalli.

The Redeemer. Dated: second half 15th century. Dimensions: overall (silhouetted contour): 21.5 x 9.3 cm (8 7/16 x 3 5/8 in.). Medium: gilded bronze. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Roman 15th Century.

Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Ferrara Museo Civico di Schifanoia64. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD--NEGATIVES PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Hector, Pietro Bonato, After Giovanni Tognolli, After Antonio Canova, 1775 - 1827 print Back view of a sculpture of the Trojan hero Hector with sword and helmet by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. Italy paper engraving Hector. piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Copy of the fountain figure of the bagpiper, 16th century, courtyard of the Fembohaus, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Head of San Jose. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 36.8 x 29 cm (14 1/2 x 11 7/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Majel G. Claflin.

Statuette 15th century China. Statuette. China. 15th century. Ivory. early Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Ivories

Roof Tile. Culture: China. Dimensions: H. 15 in. (38.1 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Re. Egypt, New Kingdom-Late Period, 1550-332 BCE. Sculpture. Silver

Stained Glass Panel 15th century South Netherlandish. Stained Glass Panel. South Netherlandish. 15th century. Stained Glass. Glass-Stained

DAMA DE BAZA. ESCULTURA SEDENTE EN PIEDRA POLICROMADA. IBERICO ESCULTURA. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Etruscan funerary urn showing funeral waggon Museo Etrusco Guarnacci Volterra Tuscany Italy Europe EU This Etruscan funerary urn shows a covered waggon thought to be a funeral carriage

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