Artworks

Kiyohara Tama

Artwork · Vincenzo Ragusa · 1878 · sculpture · Tokyo University of the Arts

A bust of his wife Kiyohara Tama (1861–1939), herself a painter, by Vincenzo Ragusa, who taught Western modelling and bronze casting at the Kōbu Bijutsu Gakkō from 1876 to 1882 and set up a foundry in his house: a technically accomplished example of the realistic neoclassical style, the smooth planes of the face against her Western-style hair. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 355–356, fig. 417. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.