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Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art

August, 2019

Some sculpture from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

1908-FA-PMA-Sculpture Venus emerged, newly born, from the water, fully grown and without a stitch of clothing.



Venus-02 But she had her friends, the Giant Clam and the toothy dolphin(?)duo.



Venus-03 "The Birth of Venus" Marble sculpture by Swiss artist Heinrich Keller, 1799



Angel-of-Purity The Angel of Purity, as modeled, at the behest of her parents, on a woman who died at 22 of diphtheria, in Philadelphia, in 1898. The Maria Mitchell Memorial, marble sculpture.



Love-Friendship-01 "Love and Friendship (The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)": 1776 marble sculpture by Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert.



Love-Friendship-02 "Love and Friendship (The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)"



Love-Friendship-03 "Love and Friendship (The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)"



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