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| Condottiere, Sarah Myers Sculpture in stoneware |
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| Condottiere, Sarah Myers Contemporary sculpture |
This Renaissance
warrior in an impressive helmet may look slightly familiar from a
profile among the incredible drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci. My
sculpture of some years ago, along with being created in the round,
also differs from the Old Master's sketch in the height of the
crested helm, which more closely resembles Spanish armour from fifty
to a hundred years later. But the scowling, proud profile gazing
from under the beaked visor bears a very close likeness, as do the
fantastic animals which adorn the front of the burgonet and the
breastplate.
With these
photographs I am revisiting a piece produced almost a decade ago.
Some things I might do a little differently now, such as reducing the
startling size of my signature. But I remain as intrigued by the Da
Vinci design as ever, which indeed has been a source of excitement
since I first found it in a child's book of Leonardo's art many years
earlier still, where the drawing was printed in the small volume I looked
at practically before I could read. And the sculpture itself is a
solid presence that continues to fill its space admirably, I believe,
and one that I remain pleased with as it stares out at me, gaze
unchanging, from under the shade of its formidable helmet.
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| Condottiere, Sarah Myers, detail in monochrome |
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| Condottiere, Sarah Myers Close-up. Sculpture in stoneware. |
