Nest with birds and snake, 19th century alabaster sculpture
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19th century Nest with birds and snake Alabaster, h. 26 cm, width. cm 16 The plastic attitude of alabaster, a preferential material for the restitution of softly modeled transparencies, has ensured its notoriety in the artistic field over the centuries. Rock made up of sediments of evaporated mineral salts, alabaster is made up of a fabric of aggregated mineral concretions, excavated in the form of ovules subsequently modeled and then sculpted as desired. In the present work the artist has organized a subtle vertical composition, in which he portrays an animal scene with marked realism. A dove is feeding its chicks, while a snake approaches among the fras