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Avatars of Antiquity II: Drapery as metaphor
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1056-1071
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Penny, Nicholas (Penny, Nicholas)
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Attributed works:
1. Drapery study for the high priest in the Trial and martyrdom of St Stephen, by Edward Poynter. 1872. Black chalk on buff paper, 41 by 27.5 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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10. Draped female torso, from the Acropolis, Xanthos. 470–460 BC. Marble, height 123.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
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11. Rebecca at the well, by Nicolas Poussin. 1648. Oil on canvas, 118 by 199 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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12. Detail from Paul preaching at Athens, by Raphael. c.1516. Body colour on paper mounted on canvas, whole canvas 320 by 390 cm. (Royal Collection, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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13. Drapery study for the high priest in the Trial and martyrdom of St Stephen, by Edward Poynter. 1872. Black chalk on buff paper, 27.6 by 27.1 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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14. Drapery study for the kneeling handmaiden in Semiramis founding Babylon, by Edgar Degas. 1860–62. Graphite with lead-white body colour and blue wash on paper, 24.4 by 31.1 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
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15. Cymon and Iphigenia by Frederic Leighton. c.1884. Oil on canvas, 162.6 by 327.7 cm. (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
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16. Drapery study by Leonardo. c.1475–82. Brown-grey wash and lead white on linen prepared with a pale grey ground, 220 by 139 cm. (Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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17. Detail of Virgin and Child, by Masaccio. 1426. Egg tempera on wood, whole panel 134.8 by 73.5 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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18. The penitence of Mary Magdalene, by Charles Le Brun. 1655. Oil on canvas, 252 by 171 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
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19. Heliodorus driven from the Temple, by Eugène Delacroix. 1855–61. Mural, 751 by 485 cm. (Chapelle des Anges, Saint-Sulpice, Paris)
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2. Detail of an Antique mural painting of a dancer, by Filippo Morghen after Camillo Paderni. Engraving, 38 by 48 cm. (page). (From Le pitture antiche d’Ercolano e contorni, I, Naples 1757).
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20. Ariadne on Naxos, by G.F. Watts. 1867–75. Oil on canvas, 75 by 94 cm. (Guildhall Museum, London).
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21. Divine figures from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Athens, believed to represent Venus reclining on the lap of her mother, Dione, by Phidias or associate. 438–432 BC. Marble, length 233 cm. (British Museum, London).
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22. Captive Andromache, by Frederic Leighton. c.1888. Oil on canvas, 195.6 by 406.4 cm. (City Art Gallery, Manchester).
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23. Detail of the figure of Amor in the chimneypiece made for the residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, Manhattan, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. c.1881–83. Limestone, height of chimneypiece 468.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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24. Dido receiving Aeneas and Cupid disguised as Ascanius, by Francesco Solimena. 1710. Oil on canvas, 207.2 by 310.2 cm. (National Gallery, London).
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3. One of the ‘attitudes’ of Lady Hamilton, by Tommaso Piroli after Friedrich Rehberg. Engraving, 26.9 by 20.8 cm. (From F. Rehberg: Drawings Faithfully Copied from Nature at Naples, n.p. 1794, fig.7).
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4. Veiled and masked dancer. Alexandria(?), c.100 BC. Bronze, height 20.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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5. Detail of Two dancers, after Antonio Canova. 1799. Tempera on paper. (Casa Canova, Possagno).
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6. Hebe, by Antonio Canova. 1816–17. Marble with gilt metal, height 158 cm. (Pinacoteca Civica, Forlì).
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7. Veiled woman (Allegory of Purity), by Antonio Corradini. 1717–25. Carrara marble. (Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca Rezzonico, Venice).
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8. Hebe, by Bertel Thorvaldsen. 1819–23. Marble, height 152.2 cm. (Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen).
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9. Kore, from the Temple of Hera, Samos. 570–60 BC. Marble, height 192 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).