Sujet

Venus and Cupid appearing to Sappho to console her, before 1866. Creator: John Gibson.

Légende

Venus and Cupid appearing to Sappho to console her, before 1866. The ancient Greek poet Sappho sits despondently with her lyre beside her, and a box containing her poems on scrolls.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts, London/John Hammond

Notre référence

HRM26A34_422

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

62.2Mo (8.1Mo) / 42.0cm x 37.1cm / 4960 x 4382 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe female women woman people male boy boys child children music religious arts vision country religion shape naked nude nudes sculpture art sad British color Neo-classical Greek relief Greece deity God location Victorian century musical instrument musical instruments gesturing Britain sadness document kitsch literature plaque concept cupid mythology cast mould Venus apparition mythological consolation nudity hand gesture SCROLL despondent goddess consoling despondency stringed instrument scrolls nakedness mold hand Gestures Plaster Cast Colour allegory 19th century Lyre poem poetry bas relief bas-relief allegorical poet Neoclassical Neoclassicism Ancient Greece allegorical figure Ancient Greek nineteenth century poems Neo-Classicism artistic movement artistic school TGN sculpture plaster Amor Sappho Goddess of Love god of love 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts John Gibson Gibson John John Gibson RA