Achille and Pentesilea
68.0 x 42.0 cm
Accademia di San Luca
Vincenzo Pacetti (1746 – 1820)
Vincenzo Pacetti (1746-1820): Italian Neoclassical sculptor & restorer famed for completing antiquities like the Barberini Faun. Explore his work at the Borghese Gallery and influence on 18th/19th century art.
Accademia di San Luca (Рим, Италия)
Национальная академия Сан-Лука берет свое начало в институте, основанном в период между концом XVI и началом XVII веков.
Pacetti’s terracotta, representing Achilles and Penthesilea, won the Concorso Balestra prize in 1773. The theme of the competition, which was organised by Anton Raphael Mengs, was the death of Penthesilea. The artist has set the group on a dramatic rocky base, the protagonists’ pathos accentuated by the diagonal of Achilles’s arm as he struggles to hold up the lifeless body of Penthesilea, and by the hero’s mantle which, still swollen with wind, hints of the battle just ended
Об этом произведении
- Название: Achille and Pentesilea
- Художник: Vincenzo Pacetti
- Размер оригинала: 68.0 x 42.0 cm
- Формат: Portrait
- Правовой статус: Общественное достояние
- Местонахождение: Accademia di San Luca
- Основной цвет: White
- Цветовой тон: Golden Yellow Range