The Sculptor's Funeral is the only podcast dedicated to figurative sculptors living and working today. Art history, tech talk, news, and interviews for the figurative sculptor working in the Western European tradition of figurative sculpture, along with a social media forum and listener mail/questions/comments make this podcast required listening for any sculptor who knows the Fine Arts aren't dead, they just smell a little funny.
Episode 57 - Giovanni Duprè, Part Two

The second part of the dramatic reading from The Autobiography of Giovanni Duprè, in which Duprè receives a crit from Lorenzo Bartolini, is accused of art fraud, and nearly causes the accidental death of his nude model. We've all been there, right?

Direct download: Episode_57_-_Dupre_Part_Two.mp3
Category:19th Century -- posted at: 12:00am EDT
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Episode 56 - Giovanni Duprè, Part One

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 fight every step of the way to achieve his dream of becoming a sculptor. Though written over a century ago, his struggles and his triumphs are familiar to many figurative sculptors and sculpture students today.

Direct download: Episode_56_-_Giovanni_Dupre_part_1.mp3
Category:19th Century -- posted at: 12:00am EDT
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Episode 55 - Raffaello Romanelli

We talk with Florentine sculptor Raffaello Romanelli, sixth generation sculptor and proprietor of one of the most historic sculpture studios in Europe. Through his family's work we can trace the progression from Neoclassicism through Romanticism, Modernism, and right through to the present resurgence of figurative sculpture. 

Direct download: Episode_55_-_Raffaello_Romanelli.mp3
Category:interview -- posted at: 12:00am EDT
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Episode 54 - Lorenzo Bartolini

This episode kicks of the exploration of the OTHER 19th century in sculpture - the one occurring outside the milieu of Paris. Lorenzo Bartolini shaped the sculpture of 19th century Italy, evolving the Neoclassicism of Canova into a ethos which sought to seek Beauty in Truth, and Truth in Beauty.

Direct download: Episode_54_-_Lorenzo_Bartolini.mp3
Category:19th Century -- posted at: 12:00am EDT
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