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Perseo con la cabeza de Medusa

1804–6
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 548
Entre 1797 y 1801, Canova esculpió una estatua de Perseo a partir del Apolo de Belvedere, obra romana del siglo II a. C. que se encuentra en los Museos del Vaticano. Perseo enarbola la cabeza de Medusa, a quien dio muerte con la ayuda de la diosa Minerva. Cuando la estatua se exhibió en el estudio de Canova, el papa Pío VII la adquirió para colocarla en el lugar que había ocupado el Apolo de Belvedere antes de que Napoleón se lo llevara temporalmente a Francia. La versión del Metropolitan Museum, comisionada poco después por la condesa polaca Valeria Tarnovska, presenta algunas variantes. Por su elegante majestad, el Perseo de Canova se convirtió en el modelo de la belleza heroica neoclásica.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Perseo con la cabeza de Medusa
  • Artista: Antonio Canova, italiano, 1757–1822
  • Fecha: 1804–1806
  • Material: Mármol
  • Dimensiones: a. 242,6 cm
  • Crédito: Fondo Fletcher, 1967
  • Número de inventario: 67.110.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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Drawing after a Lithograph of a Recumbent Lion., Antonio Canova Italian, Brush and black and gray wash, graphite and black chalk
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The Vestal, Antonio Canova Italian, Marble, Italian
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