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Sculpture Torso White Marble Of Heracles Italian Grand Tour Style Classical

after 1900

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a white marble statuary aged torso sculpture of Heracles, standing on a three order circular white veined marble with a stainless steel pin. The sculpture anatomically and detailed carved present a body of a young Hercules in contrapposto position standing with the right leg forward; on the left shoulder is present a part of the dress which also continues on the back, probably according to Greek mythology, it was the tunic, contaminated by the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus, was given to Hercules by his unaware wife, Deianira. Heracles was the greatest of Hellenic chthonic heroes, but unlike other Greek heroes, no tomb was identified as his. Heracles was both hero and god, as Pindar says heros theos; at the same festival sacrifice was made to him, first as a hero, with a chthonic libation, and then as a god, upon an altar: thus he embodies the closest Greek approach to a "demi-god". 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).
  • Creation Year:
    after 1900
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 9.06 in (23 cm)Depth: 6.7 in (17 cm)
  • Medium:
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1350113879572
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