Monumento ao balão

Clodion (Claude Michel) French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 552

Em 1783, os irmãos Montgolfier fizeram a primeira ascensão em um balão de ar quente. Durou apenas dez minutos, mas o feito foi amplamente comemorado. No final desse ano, a coroa real francesa propôs construir um monumento para comemorar o evento e Clodion foi um dos sete escultores talentosos que competiram para conseguir o projeto. Sua imaginativa proposta de um estilo rococó etéreo—em que cupidos formam montículos de palha para o lançamento do globo, guiados pela Fama e impulsionados por Éolo, deus do vento—é difícil de imaginar em mármore. Uma vez que os globos aerostáticos se converteram em um lugar-comum, o projeto foi abandonado.

Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris

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Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon, Clodion (Claude Michel) (French, Nancy 1738–1814 Paris), Terracotta, French, Paris

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