Mr. Belvedere
Bronze on marble base, Ed. 25, 11" high
There is a marble sculpture in the Vatican Museum called "The Belvedere Torso" carved by the Greek sculptor Apollonius in the 1st century B.C.. It is broken and reduced to a fragment of a male figure. I have had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Vatican several times and admire it from all points of view. It is an awesome sculpture. It may have been carved for placement a niche because the back is not fully developed, but it is perfect just the way it is in its bleached to and broken state. This sculpture was also greatly admired by and influenced the work of Michelangelo.
"Mr. Belevedere" is named after the Belvedere torso, but it is not a copy of it. It began as a study from a model. After the model had left the studio I began playing with the composition by cropping here and there. Soon I began to recognize the pose of my sculpture was similar to the Vatican sculpture and it brought back wonderful memories of my visit to the museum and "The Belvedere Torso". I completed my sculpture with those memories in my heart and called him "Mr. Belvedere", or should I say, Il Senore Belvedere.
There is a marble sculpture in the Vatican Museum called "The Belvedere Torso" carved by the Greek sculptor Apollonius in the 1st century B.C.. It is broken and reduced to a fragment of a male figure. I have had the fortunate opportunity to visit the Vatican several times and admire it from all points of view. It is an awesome sculpture. It may have been carved for placement a niche because the back is not fully developed, but it is perfect just the way it is in its bleached to and broken state. This sculpture was also greatly admired by and influenced the work of Michelangelo.
"Mr. Belevedere" is named after the Belvedere torso, but it is not a copy of it. It began as a study from a model. After the model had left the studio I began playing with the composition by cropping here and there. Soon I began to recognize the pose of my sculpture was similar to the Vatican sculpture and it brought back wonderful memories of my visit to the museum and "The Belvedere Torso". I completed my sculpture with those memories in my heart and called him "Mr. Belvedere", or should I say, Il Senore Belvedere.