Back from NY

I've spent most of my spring break in New York - where I saw an incredible amount of art and spent time with old friends. I'll be posting a lot of art from NY, but I'll start with what is probably one of my favorite sculptures of all time - "Liberty Enlightening the World." I was there yesterday before leaving the city:

the bottom two photos were taken through the 50 cent tourist binocular machines

Martin Schongauer by Bartholdi

Statue of Martin Schongauer by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1860)
image source.

Veiled

I don't post 3D works very often, but we're going over classical Greek and Roman works this week, so I've been looking at a lot of them. These veiled women are very impressive works:

Marble Head of a Veiled Woman
Greek, late 4th century BC. Image found here.

Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer,
Hellenistic, 3rd–2nd century B.C. - Greek
Bronze; H. 8 1/16 in. Image from the Met.

"Veiled Lady" (Purity) by Antonio Corradini.
1720-1725, made of Carrera marble. Image found here.

Medardo Rosso, bronze, 1906. Image found here.