by Frank Costantino | Mar 10, 2018 | Sculpture
New York City, NY Rockefeller Center’s Channel Gardens with six water pools, feature fountain sculptures of fish & figures, a bronze female sea nymph – or Nereid, one of 50 daughters of the Greek sea god, Nereus – this one titled “Will”, designed and...
by Frank Costantino | Mar 10, 2018 | Architecture, Boston, Sculpture
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts iconic sculpture, with its remarkable gesture of humility and worship, is a wonderfully proportioned Indian and Horse by sculptor Cyrus Dallin. It speaks to this country’s Native Americans, their heritage and cultural connection between...
by Frank Costantino | Mar 10, 2018 | Boston, Sculpture
Boston, MA The upper half of the Lee Ether monument in Boston’s Public Gardens, the painting was begun on a late afternoon, but completed as the sun had set, which suddenly activated the floodlights at the fountain base; necessitating a change of technique for...
by Frank Costantino | Mar 10, 2018 | Architecture, Boston, Sculpture
The sculpted base of the Lee Ether monument in Boston’s Public Garden, this granite segment of lion gargoyles back- splashed by the small fountains recalls the finest in civic monuments. A careful palette of low value and granulated colors was used for the...
by Frank Costantino | Mar 9, 2018 | Boston, Sculpture
This unusual installation is an audio, visual and sensory experience along the Rose Kennedy pedestrian greensward through downtown Boston. The sculptor used salvaged granite blocks from the waterfront’s piers, buoy markers, stainless steel and naval bronzes for...
by Frank Costantino | Mar 9, 2018 | Sculpture
Situated in a museum’s Italianate garden setting, Diana of the Hunt is portrayed with her symbolic majesty against the textured immensity of live oaks. The statue’s restored surfaces present a remarkable profile of patterns, shades, nuanced colors and brilliant...
