Polyphemus (sculpture)
| Polyphemus | |
|---|---|
 The cast of the work in the Museo Soumaya | |
| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Year | 1888 |
Polyphemus is an 1888 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing Polyphemus and his love for the Nereid Galatea, as told in Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Gates of Hell
[edit]It was an initial study for the group of Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea at the centre of the right panel of The Gates of Hell.[1] Several bronze studies of Polyphemus' torso survive, but there is no known monumental version of the complete group.[2]
Casts
[edit]A bronze cast of the work is now in the Museo Soumaya.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette (2006). Rodin The Gates of Hell. p. 42,43. ISBN 978-2-901428-69-5.
- ^ Elsen, Albert Edward; Jamison, Rosalyn Frankel (2003). Bernard Barryte, ed. Rodin's Art: the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection at Stanford University. New York, EUA: Oxford University Press. pp. 273-276. ISBN 0195133811.
External links
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Media related to Polyphemus (Auguste Rodin) at Wikimedia Commons
