Tag: Alan LeQuire
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Portraits of foreign monumental statuary – Alan LeQuire, a modern Pheidias
Probably Alan LeQuire, sculptor from Nashville, is universally known as the author of the reproduction of Athena Parthenos of Pheidias for the Parthenon of his city. There are two things in common between the Athenian artist and LeQuire: an authentic passion for colossal statues and the origins, so to speak, pictorial. Pheidias, in fact, according to Plinius, began practically as a painter. LeQuire, instead, began to…
STATUARIA MONUMENTALE 