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Marble Stele Youth And Little Girl

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Featured work Marble Stele Youth And Little Girl ca. 530 BCE

01 / About the collection

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02 / Comparisons

Two works, considered together.

Figures in Motion

Both works use a raised limb and a carefully balanced body to suggest action. They were made about fifteen centuries apart.

Artemision Bronze · 460–450 BCE
Shiva Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) · c. 1100

Defeat in Sculpture

Both works show defeated warriors supported by one arm. Each was made within a culture that framed the subject through military victory.

Dying Gaul · c. 225 BCE
The Dying Tecumseh · modeled c. 1837-1846, carved 1856

Neolithic Contemporaries

Made at roughly the same time in different regions, these works use contrasting materials and approaches: flat marble planes in the Aegean and ridged clay ornament in Jōmon Japan.

Cycladic Marble Female Figure · ca. 2700–2400/2300 BCE
Miss Umataka dogu · Middle Jomon period, approximately 3500-2500 BCE

Seated Figures

Both works use a compact seated pose. One rests a bronze chin on a knuckled hand; the other draws a terracotta torso inward.

The Thinker · 1903
Seated Figure Middle Niger · 13th century

Portraits of Authority

These portraits use symmetry, controlled expression, and idealized features to represent authority across a span of roughly thirteen centuries.

Portrait of Nefertiti · c. 1345 BCE
Bust of Augustus Wearing the Oak Crown · 1st century CE

Mother and Child

Made an ocean and four centuries apart, both works use the mother’s body and hands to support and frame a child.

Kongo Maternity Figure · mid-19th to early 20th century
Bruges Madonna · 1501-1504

03 / Exhibitions

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Gesture, force, balance

Bodies in Motion

Eleven works that use posture, balance, and composition to describe movement: throwing, falling, wrestling, dancing, and walking.

Rulers, protectors, ancestors

Power & Presence

Across time and place, sculpture has represented authority through scale, posture, material, costume, and religious or political symbols.

Devotion, protection, passage

Sacred Forms

Works associated with prayer, protection, remembrance, and passage. They come from distinct traditions and should be understood in relation to their original settings.

Fragments, casts, afterlives

What Survives

A missing limb, an isolated head, a surviving relief, and a cast after a distant original. These works show how sculpture is changed by damage, copying, and collection history.

Carving, relief, ornament

The Work of the Surface

Ten works in which shallow relief, incised lines, drilled depth, modeled clay, and painted or carved ornament carry essential information.

Animals as vessels, guardians, symbols, and performers

The Other Kingdom

Across three thousand years and several regions, these works use animals to carry religious, political, domestic, and ceremonial meanings. They are not a single tradition; each has its own context and purpose.