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Description: | MANU NERI, Giuseppe c1825 Rome, Italy This is a box of plaster impressions, principally from gems, mounted in "book" form, opening either side, inscribed "Opere di Gius(eppe) Neri".
Side 1 reproduces in medallion form two works by Canova ("The Three Graces" - clothed and "Angelica and Medoro"); Thorvaldsen's "The Life of Man"; Giulio Romano's "Dance of Putti"; from an unknown source "Cincinnatus receiving his orders while ploughing the land" and bust profile portraits of two women. Both of these Englishwomen met violent ends while in Italy. "La Siga. Bathurst" by drowning in the Tiber on 24th March 1824, her body being recovered six months later and "La Siga. Hunt" killed by brigands on her way to visit Paestum on 3rd December 1824, the four assassins later hanged in Naples.
Side 2 contains a set of "The Twelve Caesars" in medallion form.
(Information from Gertrud Seidmann 1984) | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : : : : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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