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Sylvia Lefkovitz
Sylvia Lefkovitz (August 29, 1924 – April 21, 1987) was a Canadian artist known for her murals, oils, drawings, lithos and sculptures rendered in bronze, silver, marble, and Canadian wood. Her work has been exhibited all over the world and was profiled in the National Film Board of Canada's 1966 documentary ''In Search of Medea: The Art of Sylvia Lefkovitz''. Among her major pieces are the five-figure bronze ''Chorus'', commissioned for the Mies van der Rohe complex in Montreal's Westmount Square; her ''Fathers of Confederation'', commemorating the 1967 Canadian Centennial; her eighty-figure ''Divine Comedy'', purchased by the Canadian government and exhibited in the Dante Room of the Royal Palace in Milan on the occasion of Dante's 700th birthday; and her eight bronze biblical panels in bas-relief, inspired by Ghiberti's Bronze Doors on the Florence Baptistery. Biography Sylvia Lefkovitz was born in Montreal, Quebec, to immigrant parents of Russian and Hungarian Jewish d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti (, , ; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the ''Gates of Paradise''. Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal. His book of ''Commentarii'' contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist. Ghiberti's career was dominated by his two successive commissions for pairs of bronze doors to the Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni). They are recognized as a major masterpiece of the Early Renaissance, and were famous and influential from their unveiling. Early life Ghiberti was born in 1378 in Pelago, a comune 20 km from Florence. It is said that Lorenzo was the son of Cione di Ser Buonaccorso Ghiberti and Fiore Ghibe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oronzio Maldarelli
Oronzio Maldarelli (1892 – 1963) was an Italian-born American sculptor, painter, and educator. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Like many other sculptors of his day, Maldarelli produced both architectural and funerary sculpture. Education Oronzio Maldarelli was born on September 9, 1892, in Naples, Naples, Italy. He immigrated in 1901 to the United States with his parents, Michael Maldarelli, a goldsmith, and mother, Louisa Rizzo Maldarelli. In 1925, he married Matilda Schreiber in Yonkers, New York. His early career was studying jewelry design. About 1906, he began taking modeling lessons at the Cooper Union. He later study at the National Academy of Design, with Leon Kroll, Ivan Olinsky, and Hermon Atkins MacNeil. In 1912, he entered the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied under Jo Davidson, Elie Nadelman, and John Gregory (sculptor), John Gregory. Career Maldarelli's classical training allowed him to obtain commissions for both gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
