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Belvedere Torso Grand Tour Style Figurative Sculpture Plaster 20th Century 20th
after 1900

$1,613.55Final Price

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A grand tour style sculpture, scale size of the Belvedere Torso, the famous fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", on display and one of the most important piece of the collection of the Vatican Museums. The muscular male figure is portrayed seated on an animal hide, and its precise identification remains open to debate. Though traditionally identified as a Heracles seated on the skin of the Nemean lion, recent studies have identified the skin as that of a panther, occasioning other identifications (with possibilities including Polyphemus and Marsyas). According to the Vatican Museum , "the most favoured hypothesis identifies it with Ajax, the son of Telamon, in the act of contemplating his suicide" The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old). The primary value of the Grand Tour lay in its exposure to the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to the aristocratic and fashionably polite society of the European continent. It also provided the only opportunity to view specific works of art, and possibly the only chance to hear certain music.The Grand Tour offered a liberal education, and the opportunity to acquire things otherwise unavailable, lending an air of accomplishment and prestige to the traveller. Grand Tourists would return with crates full of books, works of art, scientific instruments, and cultural artefacts – from snuff boxes and paperweights to altars, fountains, and statuary – to be displayed in libraries, cabinets, gardens, drawing rooms, and galleries built for that purpose. The trappings of the Grand Tour, especially portraits of the traveller painted in continental settings, became the obligatory emblems of worldliness, gravitas and influence.

Creation Year:
after 1900
Dimensions:
Height: 16.15 in (41 cm)Width: 10.24 in (26 cm)Depth: 13 in (33 cm)
Medium:
Plaster
After:
Apollonio di Atene (Greek)
Period:
20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1350110720312

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