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Gian Lorenzo Bernini'Neptune' V&A Portfolio Limited Edition printcirca 1622 (printed later)
circa 1622 (printed later)
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Detail of Neptune’s Head, Neptune and Triton, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680),
National Collection of Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London Photography Archives
Beautiful HUGE 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm's Oversize silver gelatin print
(printed on 60x40" paper size)
Unframed.
Limited edition to 100.
From the Galerie Prints V&A PORTFOLIO.
A stunning visual archive of over 200 images selected from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum,
the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance.
Certificate of authenticity provided.
was commissioned from the leading Italian Baroque sculptor, Gianlorenzo Bernini, by Alessandro Peretti, Cardinal Montalto, for the garden of the Villa Montalto in Rome, and carved within a year in 1622-23. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the group was one of the most celebrated sights in Rome, and a number of engravings show it in its original position, standing at the upper end of the large fish-pond, known as the Peschiera or Peschierone, in the Montalto garden. This impressive group originally formed the centrepiece of a complex system of fountains and cascades. It projected a single jet of water through the conch-shell held by Triton, who was misidentified as 'Glaucus' (the fisherman who, according to mythology, turned into a merman - half man, half fish) in some engravings and references.
In classical mythology Neptune ruled over the seas and its inhabitants. His son Triton was a merman. Neptune and Triton are portrayed with great vitality as they command the seas, which we are to be imagined around the base of the group. The composition may be based on Ovid's account of the Flood (Metamorphoses, Book 1, 330-42), in which Triton is ordered by Neptune to blow his conch-shell to summon the waters to retreat. However, it is also often associated with the Quos Ego ('Whom I'), Neptune's unfinished threat to the winds to cease stirring the seas, from Virgil's Aeneid (Book 1, 135).
The V&A Portfolio
A stunning visual archive of over 200 images selected from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance. The V&A holds around 500,000 photographic works in its collections.
Uniquely produced as black and white silver gelatin, and archival pigment prints, premium quality prints are made using a selection of very high quality paper and outstanding framing materials.
- Creator:Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680, Italian)
- Creation Year:circa 1622 (printed later)
- Dimensions:Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:1620-1629
- Framing:Framing Options Available
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:London, GB
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