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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 41 (2006)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 41

"Bertel Thorvaldsen's Nessus Abducting Deianira"

Wardropper, Ian

2006

14 pages

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About the authors

Ian Wardropper

Met Art in Publication

Nessus Abducting Dejanira, Bertel Thorvaldsen Danish, Marble, Danish, sculpted Rome — Nessus Abducting Dejanira
modeled 1814–15, carved 1821–23 or 1826

Nessus Abducting Dejanira, Giuseppe Girometti Italian, Sardonyx, mounted in gold as a pendant, Italian, Rome — Nessus Abducting Dejanira
ca. 1815–25

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