While there was a precedent for painted depictions of Mary grieving over the dead Christ in Florentine art, the subject appears to have been novel to Italian sculpture.

So if, say, you have decided to collect 17th-century Italian sculpture, there are probably 10 galleries and dealers that regularly carry such items.

Italian sculpture will also be housed in the galerie Molière with Ancient to fifteenth-century sculpture on the ground floor and fifteenth-century to Canova just upstairs.

Dated 1490-95, the "Adam," which came to the museum in 1936, is considered a significant piece of Italian sculpture.

In 1948, he gained worldwide recognition when he was awarded the grand prize in Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale.

The plaster casts were knockoffs of Italian sculpture.

Rich in stained glass, Italian sculpture and symbolism, it features a virgin lighting a tall seven-branched candelabrum, symbol of spiritual light and salvation.

Actually, it was a little confusing, seeing Italian sculpture in a Japanese museum park, staying in a late 19th-century hotel in the middle of Japan's largest hot springs resort.

The 350 objects date from the Gothic era to the 19th century, with a concentration on Italian 16th-century sculpture and French bronzes of the 16th and 17th centuries.

He looked like a piece of Italian sculpture.