He adapted two figures from the base of Raphael's Madonna del Baldacchino for his The Chanting Cherubs, the first marble group by an American.
A Petrarch poem about chastity inspired this artist's sculpture of Cupid shackled to a rock on which an owl perches. This artist of Love Prisoner to Wisdom named his pet greyhound Arno after the river in his adopted home of Florence. Writing as Horace Bender, he outlined ideas that influenced functionalist architecture in his book Form and Function. He adapted two figures from the base of Raphael's Madonna del Baldacchino for his The Chanting Cherubs, the first marble group by an American. Another of his groups depicts a frontiersman grabbing the arm of an Indian and is titled The Rescue. A popular joke claimed that this artist's sculpture of a seated man holding a sword was reaching for his (*) clothes; that statue was relegated to the Patent Office because the American public wasn't ready for a Zeus-inspired presidential portrait in the Capitol. For 10 points, name this sculptor of a ridiculous Neoclassical sculpture of George Washington in a toga.
A Petrarch poem about chastity inspired this artist's sculpture of Cupid shackled to a rock on which an owl perches.
Horatio Greenough