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Canova’s copper head of Medusa
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 916-923
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Author:
Gustin, Melissa L. (Gustin, Melissa L.)
Subjects
art literature:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
artists:
Canova, Antonio
buildings:
Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum, Italy
dates:
1790-1799
media:
Marbles / Copper / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy / Musei Vaticani, Rome, Italy
styles:
Italian sculpture
subjects:
Medusa / Perseus / Antiquity / Roman art / Conservation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Triumphant Perseus, by Antonio Canova. Second version, 1804–06. Marble, 242.6 by 191.8 by 102.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova. c.1797–1800. Embossed copper with bronze additions, 31 by 40.5 by 29.8 cm. (Museo Biblioteca Archivio, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the head of Medusa.
Attributed works:
4. Head of Medusa, cast after Antonio Canova. 1806–07. Plaster, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Perseus and Medusa, by Antonio Canova. c.1798–99. Oil on canvas, 24 by 73 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Attributed works:
7. Fig.2 during restoration. (Courtesy Museo Archivio Biblioteca Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
8. Five dancers with garlands of flowers, by Antonio Canova. 1799. Mixed media on canvas, 72 by 178 cm. (© Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno).
Attributed works:
9. Fig.2 prior to restoration. (Courtesy Museo Archivio Biblioteca Bassano del Grappa).
Western art unattributed:
10. Archaising bust of a youth (bust of Apollo). Roman. Bronze, height 25 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples).
Western art unattributed:
10. Ptolemy Apion. Roman. Bronze, height 29 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples; photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Rondanini Medusa. Roman copy after a bronze original of c.170 BC. Marble, height 29 cm. (Glypthotek, Munich; photograph © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
Western art unattributed:
9. Ptolemy Apion, from De’ bronzi di Ercolano e contorni incisi con qualche spiegazione: Tomo Primi: Busti, Naples 1767. Table LIX, p.203.
Article
An Early Work of Lucio Picinino
07/1917 | 172 | 31
Pages: 26+29-31
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Author:
Laking, Guy Francis (Laking, Guy Francis; Laking, Guy)
Subjects
artists:
Piccinino, Lucio
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Italy / England / Oxford
subjects:
Sculpture / Metalwork / Shields (Armour)
subjects:
Classical mythology / Iconography / Medusa
subjects:
Early works
subjects:
Italian sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Pageant Shield; Here Ascribed to Lucio Picinino (Ashmolean Museum, Drury Fortnum Bequest). (A) Front. (B) Back. An Early Work of Lucio Picinino