Episode 95 - François and Me
Jason's historical novel about François Rude is finally out! But what lies behind his obsession for this little-known French sculptor from t...
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Jason's historical novel about François Rude is finally out! But what lies behind his obsession for this little-known French sculptor from t...
Today we explore the work of the Renaissance masters Niccolo dell'Arca, Guido Mazzoni, and Antonio Begarelli. Never heard of them? You're no...
Exploring the enigmatic chapel of the Princes of San Severo, Host Jason Arkles lifts the veil of secrecy surrounding the fabulous works ther...
Lavinia Ream (but call her Vinnie!) was, despite the odds, a sculptor. Born into a working class family and growing up in a nation at war, i...
The Sculptor's Funeral Podcast is back with a look into a group of Michelangelo's sculptures collectively known as the Pietàs. Your affable...
Meet one of the most enigmatic and anachronistic sculptors in history - Franz Messerschmidt. His work looks modern, but that's a few centuri...
Huntington was a prolific American sculptor in the early 20th century, but her greatest legacy may be the extensive and unique sculpture par...
The Venus De Milo, the Torso Belvedere, The Winged Victory, The Laocoon - some of the most famous Antique sculpture in the world. Strange th...
It's often hyperbole to describe something as 'colossal' - but when you're talking about the statue for which the word 'colossal' was coined...
The Sculptor's Funeral Podcast is finishing off this strange and terrible year with the final round of the quiz show! Listen to Lubov, David...
Listen to CJ, Mark, and Lubov go head to head in Round Three of the Sculptor's Funeral Quiz Show!
Listen to Rony, Alison, and David go head to head in Round Two of the Sculptor's Funeral Quiz Show!
Three avid listeners of the Sculptor's Funeral Podcast match wits and test their knowledge of art history! Round one, with Bruce, Liz, and A...
Praxiteles and Lysippos - the two giants of 4th century Greece, and they are both covered in this episode. Learn what happened to the first...
If 'Classic' derives from the Greek word for 'Best', then what comes after the time of Classical Athens? Something not as good for Athens, o...
In this episode. Jason discusses the sculpture of Polykleitos and the ideas behind them. One of the most celebrated sculptors in history, Po...
In this follow-up on the episode concerning the Greek sculptor Phidias, we take a look at the sculptural program of Greece's most famous str...
Vision, talent, will, and money - the perfect combination for a Golden Age in sculpture. It's only happened a small handful of times, and it...
What did it take to move Greek culture forward into the Classical period from the Archaic? Just a few victorious battles against impossible...
Renaissance means 'Rebirth'. But we don't hear much about the original 'Naissance' in Ancient Greece that gave birth to what we call Classic...
In the first of a new series of Sculptor's Funeral episodes focusing on the ancient Greeks, Jason looks at the fundamental question underlyi...
Gutzon Borglum's masterpiece, the Mount Rushmore National Monument... Overblown tourist attraction, or a sculpture for the Ages? Listen to t...
Who is Gutzon Borglum, you ask? How strange that the sculptor of the Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota is practically unknown...
This episode of the Sculptor's Funeral examines the controversy surrounding the removal of statues from public spaces around the United Stat...
Daniel Chester French's greatest work is arguably the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington,...
Daniel Chester French is mostly remembered for sculpting the colossal Lincoln on the National Mall in Washington DC, but equally, he was Ame...
Is it Paris? Versailles? Venice? ...Chicago, actually! The stunning cityscape you see in the image was known as the White City, a dreamlike...
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the hom...

In this interview, Jason talks with Michael Defeo, a sculptor who has developed dozens of characters for animated features like Ice Age and...
In the second half of this two-part episode, we discuss several works by Saint-Gaudens; monuments that in the hands of lesser sculptors woul...
To tell the story the story of the career of Augustus Saint-Gaudens is to tell the story of American sculpture in the late 19th century. In...
One of the most influential instructors in figurative sculpture today, Robert Bodem has been the Director of Sculpture at the Florence Acade...
Harriet Hosmer was known in her day as a 'Lady Sculptor', an 'Emancipated Woman', and as a leading member of 'The White Marmorean Flock'. Wh...
Host Jason Arkles bids you all a Romantic Adieu (Don't worry, it's just the Season Finale) with this rebroadcast of the Romanticism podcast,...
The first American sculptor to achieve international fame, Hiram Powers, did so with a statue which was as controversial for its anti-slaver...
What New World? European settlers on the American continent brought Old World European tastes in sculpture with them from their earliest day...
Brian Booth Craig talks a lot. Usually this is not a problem, I can edit an interview into a snappy hour long episode - but what Brian says...
Today's interview on the Sculptor's Funeral has me talking with Brian Booth Craig, one of the leading figurative sculptors of the day. We di...
The second part of the dramatic reading from The Autobiography of Giovanni Duprè, in which Duprè receives a crit from Lorenzo Bartolini, is...

The Sculptor's Funeral Theater is back with another dramatic reading! The Autobiography of Giovanni Duprè is the memoir of a man who had to...
We talk with Florentine sculptor Raffaello Romanelli, sixth generation sculptor and proprietor of one of the most historic sculpture studios...
This episode kicks of the exploration of the OTHER 19th century in sculpture - the one occurring outside the milieu of Paris. Lorenzo Bartol...
The Three Graces. Cupid and Psyche. Napoleon. Everyone knows Antonio Canova, and you either love him or hate him. But - love him or hate him...
The idea of looking towards Greek art for inspiration wasn't exactly new in the late 18th Century with artists such as Canova and David. Art...
Plaster - where would we sculptors be without it? As fundamental as this versatile material is to the basic processes of sculpture, how many...
Figurative sculptor Sabin Howard has just been selected to complete the sculptural components of the National World War One Memorial in Wash...
Michelangelo's path to immortality continues to twist and turn in this episode, detailing his time in Florence working on the New Sacristy,...
Just because you are the immortal genius Michelangelo doesn't mean you have it easy... This episode explored the trials and tribulations of...
Today's podcast features interviews of three sculptors - Matt Kindy, Spencer Schubert, and Philippe Faraut - who have found that the best qu...
...You know which David. You know who created it. But do you know why it was created in the first place, or how it ended up becoming one of...
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