Sculpture Collection

The Sculpture Collection consists primarily of honorary busts (Woodrow Wilson, on the first faculty, and President M. Carey Thomas are represented) by European and American artists, such as Boyle, Epstein and Manship, and a few contemporary sculptures (indoor and outdoor) by sculptors such as Boutellis and Kralik. The holdings also include a medieval wood Madonna, a limestone St. James, a bronze death mask of Napoleon, and statuettes of Joan of Arc by various French sculptors. The holdings include significant late 19th century sculptural reproductions and casts. A series of plaster classical antique figural reliefs, the colossal marble reproductive head of Juno Ludovisi (Roman 1st century A.D.) and the plaster statue of the Lemnian Athena (after a Greek 5 th century B.C. bronze prototype) are displayed in the Carpenter Library for Art, Archaeology, Cities and Classics.. The collection also holds hundreds of plaster casts of Late antique, Early Christian and Medieval Ivories assembled by the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum).