The 1000++ Artworks of media Sculpture and containing the word rembrandt van rijn, sculpture, dutch golden age, royalty

Xavery was an Antwerp sculptor who settled in The Hague in 1721, where he became court painter. In 1736, he made this bust of Princess Anne of Hannover, daughter of King George II of England and wife of stadholder Willem IV. A couple of years earlier, Xavery had made a bust of the stadholder himself...

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The Dutch stadholder Prince Willem III of Orange was married to Mary Stuart, the eldest daughter of King James II of England. In 1689, they were crowned king and queen of England. Ten years later, Blommendael sculpted this portrait of the king-stadholder. Willem III is portrayed as a powerful monarc...

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A butterfly in the headdress and one painted over the face of a jaguar on this sculpture demonstrate that the art and culture of Gulf Coast Veracruz was dominated by central Mexico’s first great civilization, Teotihuacan (150 B.C.-A.D. 700). Butterflies were symbols of dead warriors at Teotihuacan, ...

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Under the patronage of the Assyrian kings, the art of ivory carving flourished in the ancient Near East. At the capital of Kalhu (modern Nimrud in northern Iraq), thousands of exquisitely carved ivories, many of them inset with colored glass and gems, have been uncovered in palace chambers. Most of ...

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Statue of a late Egyptian kinglet, standing, arms by sides with hands clenched holding cylinders; traditional kilt with plain belt. Hair represented in naturalistic Roman style and encircled by narrow diadem, with uraeus; eyes originally inlaid. Uninscribed rear pillar. Material, unidentified red-br...

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Female sculpture dressed as Coatlicue, mother goddess of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Her face is a skull with inlays, but only some fragments are conserved: turquoise mosaic on the circles that adorn the cheekbones, fragments of red seashell on the nose and white seashell teeth. Her head has mu...

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Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen was the original occupant of the Mauritshuis. He had already been dead for nearly fifty years when Van Logteren made this terracotta statue of him. Van Logteren probably produced this as a design for a large statue he was commissioned to make, although we know n...

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