Sujet

Cupid, by Michael Angelo, in the South Kensington Museum, 1862. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Cupid, by Michael Angelo, in the South Kensington Museum, 1862. 'The god is represented as a youth of sixteen or seventeen years old, kneeling on one knee in an animated momentary attitude difficult to describe; the head is turned to one side in a movement elegantly contrasted with that of the torso; the right arm extends downwards, as if about to take up some object from the ground, whilst the other, holding a bow, is raised in the air, level with the head; a quiver of arrows and some drapery rest on the ground on the left. Various portions of the work, particularly the hair of the head and the drapery on the ground, are left unfinished...The upraised arm - which, from its disengaged position, must (in all probability) originally have been sculptured from a different block and adjusted to the statue - is a skilful restoration by Signor Santarelli, Professor of Sculpture in the Academy of Florence, the original arm having perished, either from exposure to the weather for a long series of years, or from having been fractured by pistol-bullets, the marks of several of which are visible in other portions of the statue, and which were wantonly fired at it whilst placed in the Riccadi Gardens, in Florence'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Date

1862

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A09_058

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

27,6Mo (1,9Mo) / 22,6cm x 30,7cm / 2665 x 3626 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy Italian people male boy boys child children man men religious stone arts country religion naked nude statue statues sculpture art guy British museum color marble deity God Renaissance location century Britain newspapers press print concept cupid B&W nudity engraved engraving nakedness Colour allegory 19th century black & white black and white B W allegorical white and black allegorical figure nineteenth century The Print Collector artistic school Illustrated London News South Kensington Museum ILN Michelangelo Buonarroti newspaper young man young men Unknown Michelangelo Michael Angelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Simoni Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti M Angelo 19th-century