RENAISSANCE COAT OF ARMS in White Carrara Marble Italy 17th Century

Pair of amazing Italians Minotauro Sculptures Minotaur, large marble figure, Italy, 17th century, figure with a human body and the head of a bull, baroque style, white slightly sp...

ITALIAN MASK IN WHITE carrara MARBLE 19th century Mask in white class P carrara marble HEIGHT 20cm WIDTH 20cm THICKNESS 10cm WEIGHT 12Kg MOUTH WIDTH 23 cm Good condition for the age.

Italian sink in white Carrara marble 20th century Four sides sanded by hand. Roughing of the stone, carried out by the stonemason using a tool called a ...

OLD ITALIAN SKETCH IN WHITE CARRARA MARBLE 20th Century Interesting old sketch in white Carrara marble from a sculpture workshop in Carrara. The sketch served as the basis for the c...

Cross pendant in gold and diamonds 17th Century in chiseled gold, representing Our Lady of the Conception, decorated on the reverse with Jesus Christ, studded with pink cut diamo...

Antique Italian white Carrara marble trougle, 19th century. Measures : height 20 cm. width 34 cms. length 45 cm. internal depth of the...

17th century Italian carrara marble bust of a Classical Roman. Finely carved Classical Roman Carrara marble bust sculpture from the 17th ce...

A magnificent Italian 17th century Louis XIV period, circa 1680 white carrara marble statue of a man and his dog. The striking statue, carved out of one solid marble block, is raised on a rectangular base. The extremely well sculpted statue...

An impressive and very high quality Italian late 17th / early 18th century white Carrara marble bust of Athena. The bust is raised by a rectangular base with cut corners and a fine w...

Faun-Demon. Female figure with goat legs. Animal skin on her shoulders. Demonic face. She is holding a turtle.

Marble lion white marble France, probably Périgord, 17th century Small marble lion wearing a coat of arms pendant with the engraved date, ...

Cerberus Black painted stone Italy, 17th century Measures: 80 x 69 x 36cm (one head missing) Cerberus, cruel monster, fierce and strange, Through his wide threefold throat barks as a dog Over the multitude immers'd beneath. His eyes glare crimson, black his unctuous beard, His belly large, and claw'd the hands, with which He tears the spirits, flays them, and their limbs Piecemeal disparts (Dante, Inferno, Canto VI). Cerberus figure seated, in his role of ferocious guardian of the underworld; he shows a nervous musculature, an adherent skin which reveals the ribs, long and robust limbs; his heads are broad and the eyes set well apart. Painted in black to amplify his menacing look, the infernal guardian is depicted with his famous attributes, writhing his heads, growling and barking furiously. Cerberus, in Greek mythology, was the monstrous watchdog of the underworld – also known as the “hound of Hades” – preventing the dead from leaving, and making sure that those who entered never left. A child of Typhon and Echidna, he was part of a monstrous family, which included Orthus, the Lernaean Hydra, and the Chimaera as well. Only on three occasions Cerberus was tricked by visitors of Hades: Heracles did it with his strength, Orpheus with his music. In "The Inferno", Dante places Cerberus as the guardian of the third circle of Hell. With his three mouths, Dante saw Cerberus as a beast that was synonymous with the sin of Gluttony. Virgil gets past the monster by throwing mud in his three mouths, temporarily choking him. Very rare are the representations of Cerberus in ancient statuary...