Decoration with Art

Tanagra. Kouros (young man). 50cm This piece, that we present today, is a Tanagra of the Kouros (young man). The Greek terracotta called "Tanagra" are polychromed ceramic figures of smaller size, which were very valuable objects in the Greek world of the late fourth century BC to the end of the third century before Christ. The Tanagra were also used as grave goods in the temple and as decorating in the houses. Kouros (young man) is the modern name for the statue of a young man in Greek art of the Archaic period. The scheme of the generally unclothed Kouros was in the whole Greek culture space spread and and known before the 8th century BC. The 40 cm high figure of "Kouros of Palekastro", which was found in 1987 in Crete, proves that the scheme was used before the Mycenaeans conquest of the island and thus before the Dark Ages.

Laocoön and His Sons. 55x28x68cm Today we will exceptionally present a figure of the prominence, it is The statue of Laocoön and His Sons. This figure is the representation of the death struggle of Laocoon. It is a work of the fine art. The sculpture of the sculptors Hagesandros, Polydorus and Athanadoros from Rhodes is only preserved in a marble copy, which dates from the second half of the 1st century BC or the beginning of the 1st century AD. The original was probably made ​​around 200 BC, as a bronze sculpture from Pergamon, which not longer exist. The death struggle is a representation from the mythology, where exist two different versions, one version says that Laocoön loved his wife in the temple of Poseidon and in wrath the god Poseidon he sended the two snakes, and another version says that in the trojan battle, when the Greeks in their alleged withdrawal leave a Wooden Horse, Laocoön was the only one who recognized the wit and he tried to puncture with a spear

Visit our tapestry section   A less frequently visited section of our website is that of tapestries, today we present a tapestry with the motif of the "Four Seasons" by Alfons Mucha. Alfons Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939) was a Czech artist, poster artist, graphic designer, illustrator, painter, amateur photographer and craftsman, considered one of the most prominent representatives of Art Nouveau. We advise you, if you don't know much about this amazing artist, to take a look at some of his works on our website in the section of old pictures and canvases.

Visit our Oriental figures section.     In our Oriental Art Section, you can find the almost one metre high Seated Buddha. Despite its size it is very easy to handle because it is specially made of fibreglass, a statue suitable for interior and exterior decoration.  

Figure of God Pan in bronze 10 cm     This is a cast bronze figure , which represents the god Pan with his flute. Pan was the demi-god of shepherds and flocks, in the Greek mythology. He was venerated especially in Arcadia, though it doesn't exist in this region large sanctuaries in his honor. In the Roman mythology, this God is identified with the Faun. This figure was made ​​in the lost wax process. The lost wax process is a sculptural process of very old tradition, III century BC, which served to reproduce models of metal. These models are made ​​of a prototype, which can be made ​​of mud, clay, wood, wax, etc. This previous model is surrounded by a thick layer of soft material, that hardens and when it is cured, the piece is reproduced in wax. Then, the wax figure is coated with ceramic material and then placed in an oven where the wax can melt out in prepared holes and at whose spot can injected molten metal, which adopts the exact shape of the model. To extract the fi

Sculpture of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. 94cm Today we present a truly unique figure, the well-known Winged Victory of Samothrace in a size of almost one metre. The Winged Victory of Samothrace is a Greek sculpture depicting the goddess of victory Nike and is currently housed in the Louvre in Paris. It was found in the sanctuary of the Cabiri on the Greek island of Samothrace. It was probably created around 190 BC. It is believed that Rhodian sculptors created the statue.

Here we present a section of polychrome bas-reliefs, true beauties of art. Our bas-reliefs are made in alabaster, they have a polychrome in oil colours and the patina is based on natural wax, which gives the works an impression of Antiquity. Renaissance and Classicism Here we have reliefs of paintings from the XV century, by artists such as Sandro Botticelli The classical world In the classical world, we find relief in the Roman and Greek style, under these reliefs are some Maenads, who were the hostesses of the Dionysian traits in Greek mythology. Romanticism and Art Nouveau In this section, we can find artworks by artists such as Klimt and Alfons Mucha from the XIX to XX century. Oriental Art Here we find especially works of Japanese culture, such as the Kabuki (dance) or the story of Prince Genji. Sacred Art The Sacred Art has representations of the Virgin Maria with the Child and other narrative of religion. The modern painting Here we have Artworks which