Brass Artifact
Photogrammetry of a brass artifact

Manuel Mujica Millán
Bust of the architect Manuel Mujica Millán (1982) by Raúl Sanchez is located in the municipality of Libertador in Mérida, Venezuela. The bust suffers from generalized oxidation, dirt and exhibits signs of vandalism. The face is marked with black spots down…

El Canónigo Uzcátegui (Francisco Antonio Uzcátegui)
Francisco Antonio Uzcátegui (1915) (unknown artist). Located on Urdaneta Avenua at the former headquarters of Colonia Hogar Simón Bolívar, currently at the Merideña de Salud Corporation. Photo registry by Marinela Araque Rivero and Samuel Leonardo Hurtado…

Raúl Chuecos Picón
This monument is a tribute to the consecrated poet and writer Raúl Chuecos Picón from Mérida, Venezuela. The bust of is part of the heritage bequeathed by artist Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz which can be found throughout the city. Regulo Burelli Rivas considered…

Abstract Wood Sculpture
Abstract Wood Sculpture (year unknown) by Francisco Narváez. Located at the Collection FMN (Fundación Museos Nacionales), custody of GAN (Galería de Arte Nacional) in Caracas, Venezuela. Dimensions: 100 x 145 x 99 cm. Photo registry by Luis Chacín in August…

Monumento a Cristóbal Rojas
This monument to the painter Cristóbal Rojas (1858 - 1890) is at the front of the Cristóbal Rojas School of Plastic Arts, founded in 1959 at Barinas, the capital of the Barinas State in the western plains of Venezuela. The commemorative artwork consists of…


La Ciencia (with cameras)
Teaching Materials La Ciencia (1950) by Francisco Narváez. Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry done by Félix León and Xiomara Gonzalez in February 2018. Dimensions: 445 x 1065 cm. This piece is a part of the collection “Synthesis…


Monumento de Tulio Gonzalo Salas
Monument to Tulio Gonzalo Salas (1977) by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz, located in the El Rincón de los Poetas park in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. Photographic record made in Mérida, Venezuela by Marinela Araque Rivero and Samuel Leonardo Hurtado…

Amphion, 1953
Amphion (1953) by Henri Laurens (1885-1954). Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry done by Rafael Enrique Rodri­guez y Daniel Patiño. This piece is a part of the collection "Synthesis of the Arts" at the University City of Caracas,…

Escultura José María Vargas
José María Vargas (1987) by Francisco Narváez. Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry done by Martín Uztaríz in February 2018. This piece is a part of the collection “Synthesis of the Arts” at the University City of Caracas, an…

José Vicente Nucete Monument
José Vicente Nucete (1977) by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz, located in the El Rincón de los Poetas park in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. Photographic record made in Mérida, Venezuela by Marinela Araque Rivero and Samuel Leonardo Hurtado Camargo,…


Busto de Simón Planas Suárez
Full scale marble bust of Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and academic Simón Planas Suárez (1879-1967) created by Italo-Venezuelan sculptor Aldo Macor.

Simon Bolivar Monument (Táchira, Venezuela)
Simon Bolivar monument. Located in the Palace of The Lions, seat of the Legislative Council of the Táchira State in Venezuela. Photo registry by George Castellano.

Sleeping Hermaphroditus
In 1619, Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the Baroque Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt the mattress under the marble figure. This work is a Roman copy that was probably inspired by a Greek original of the 2nd century BC. This statue is…

José Vicente Nucete Monument (Version 2)
Monument to José Vicente Nucete (1977) by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz, located in the El Rincón de los Poetas park in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. Photographic record made in Mérida, Venezuela by Marinela Araque Rivero and Samuel Leonardo Hurtado…

La Maternidad
The Maternity (1954) by Baltazar Lobo. Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry done by Daniel Patino and Cruz Sojo in February 2018. This piece is a part of the collection "Synthesis of the Arts" at the University City of Caracas,…

El Atleta (Escultura) Estadio Olimpico
The Athlete (1951) is one of the three monumental sculptures that Francisco Narvaez (1905 - 1982) carved in Cumarebo stone at the request of the architect Carlos Raul Villanueva, for The Central University of Venezuela. This large scale piece is located on…

Orgaje I
Carved in mahogany wood, this artwork by Zulian artist Carlos Romero, “Orgage” (a made-up word with “organic” and “geometric”), uses rounded shapes as an expression of natural life and geometric patterns to portray the analytical side of human beings.

La Mano del Surco (with cameras)
“La Mano del Surco” (1980) by Daniel Herrera (1948-2004). Located at the House of Culture in Maracay, Venezuela. Photo registry by Frank Araujo and Ysrael Gómez on 01/04/2018.

Busto de José Faustino Sánchez Carrión
Bronze portrait of Peruvian pro-independence politician Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion (1787-1825), created by A.Pozzuoli in August 1959. It was cast in the B. Campaiola Foundry in Lima, Peru.




La Cultura (Escultura) Plaza del Rectorado
This massive bronze sculpture highlights the Rectorate Square of the Central University of Venezuela. Called La Cultura or Estatua en Bronce, measures 180 cm high by 174 cm wide and 94 cm deep, and is part of the collection of 108 pieces of the Synthesis of…


Roselia Acostada Tomando Sol
This sculpture by Javier Level, is inspired by his soulmate Roselia, who is a shamanic therapist and the subject of several of Level’s artworks.

José Vicente Nucete (Version 3) (with cameras)
José Vicente Nucete (1977) by the sculptor Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz, located in the El Rincón de los Poetas park in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. Photographic record made in Mérida, Venezuela by Marinela Araque Rivero and Samuel Leonardo Hurtado Camargo,…

El Dinamismo en 30 Grados
El Dinamismo en 30 Grados, 1953 by Antoine Pervsner (1866-1962). Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry by Carlos Ancheta and Jonathan Martinez in February 2018. This piece is a part of the collection "Synthesis of the Arts" at…

Cabeza de Cristo (Version 2)
Cabeza de Cristo by anonymous (Trujillo, 17th century). Located at the Colonial Art Museum at Anauco House in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry by Rosa Ana Langerano in April 2018.


Monumento a Los Caídos de la Generación del 28
Bronze monument to commemorate the Generation of 1928, a group of Venezuelan students who took to the streets to protest against Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez. Inscription: “To the Memory of the Disappeared Members of the Generation of 1928 - The Central University…

Monumento a José Antonio Páez (Plaza Páez, Barinas)
This bronze sculpture was created by an unknown artist as a replacement for the previous sculpture made of marble, by the Italian sculptor Emilio Gariboldi. The original bust was commissioned to Gariboldi in 1925 for a town square in Barinas City to commemorate…

Traspasando el Umbral
Traspasando el umbral (1984) by Colette Delozanne. Located in Maracay, Venezuela. Photo registry by Frank Araujo and Ysrael Gómez. Approximate dimensions 160 x 130 x 96 cm.

Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II (Venice)
Part of a monument to Vittorio Emanuele II on the Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice. Vittorio Emanuele II (1849-1861) was the first King of united Italy in 1861.

Viking Head Sculpture
This is photogrammetry of the giant stone head in front of the “Viking World” museum in Iceland. This 2013 commission was by artist Jón Adolf Steinólfsson. It was planned to be part of the stone giant as depicted in the Icelandic coat of arms. The original…


Cuna Para Un Niño Jesús
Crib for Baby Jesus by Antonio Mateo de Los Reyes (circa 1755). Located at the Colonial Art Museum at Anauco House in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry by Rosa Ana Langerano in April 2018.

Mural (Mateo Manaure) y Escultura La Dama Durmiente (Francisco Narvaez)
Mural by Mateo Manaure with circles, rectangles and lines in red, black, blue, brown, and gray over a white and yellow background. The wooden sculpture by Francisco Narvaez is part of his "Nuevas Formas" series (New Forms) and it was created in the stylized…

Busto de Simón Bolívar
** This model is a work in progress. Image donations to help complete this model can be made at https://digital-content-donation.arck-project.org/ **

Maternidad
“Motherhood” by Francisco Narváez (1905-1982). Bronze casting with golden patina. It is located in the lobby of the exhibition hall of the House of Culture. Photographic record made in Maracay Edo Aragua by Frank Araujo and Ysrael Gomez on 01/04/2018. This…


Bust of Emperor Commodus
Roman Emperor Commodus, or Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, was emperor from 177-192. His brutal misrule precipitated civil strife that ended 84 years of stability and prosperity within the empire.

Chernobyl Sarcophagus Memorial
This sculpture of cupped hands holding a power plant was erected in 2006 just outside of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant #4 which was the site of the April 1986 nuclear energy disaster. The monument is dedicated to the remembrance of the heroic actions of plant…

La Ciencia
La Ciencia (1950) by Francisco Narváez. Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry by Félix León and Xiomara Gonzalez in February 2018. Dimensions: 445 x 1065 cm. This piece is a part of the collection "Synthesis of the Arts" at…

Simon Bolivar Monument (Táchira, Venezuela) (with cameras)
Simon Bolivar monument. Located in the Palace of The Lions, seat of the Legislative Council of the Táchira State in Venezuela. Photo registry by George Castellano.

Nicho Para Niño Jesús
Wood carved, sgraffito and gilded. The piece has a parallelepiped shape, on 4 carved legs. Four faces are glass, the front face is carved with stylized vegetables simulating a column. The lateral faces are sgraffito as well the back cover on its inner side…

Torre de Enfriamiento y Mural Sophia de Víctor Vasarely, 1953
Dynamism in 30 Degrees (1953) by Antoine Pervsner in front of the Torre de Enfriamento (1953) by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry done by Carlos Ancheta and Jonathan Martínez in April 2018.…



Tsukubai Sensō-ji
Tsukubai (Purification Wash Basin) at Senso-ji Temple Tsukubai Senso-ji Sensoji (浅草寺, Sensōji, also known as Asakusa Kannon Temple) is a Buddhist temple located in Asakusa. It is one of Tokyo’s most colorful and popular temples. The legend says that in the…

Raul Chuecos Picón (Version 2)
This monument is a tribute to the consecrated poet and writer Raúl Chuecos Picón from Mérida, Venezuela. The bust of is part of the heritage bequeathed by artist Manuel de la Fuente Muñoz which can be found throughout the city. Regulo Burelli Rivas considered…

La Educación
La Educación (1950) by Francisco Narváez (1905 - 1982). Located at the University City in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo registry done by Gustavo Lagarde in February 2018. This piece is a part of the collection “Synthesis of the Arts” at the University City of…

Busto de Andrés Bello
Andrés Bello (1781-1865), jurist, philologist and Venezuelan patriot.

Monumento a José Antonio Páez (Plaza Páez, Barinas) (High Resolution)
This bronze sculpture was created by an unknown artist as a replacement for the previous sculpture made of marble, by the Italian sculptor Emilio Gariboldi. The original bust was commissioned to Gariboldi in 1925 for a town square in Barinas City to commemorate…