Tipu Sultan was killed when the East India Company army stormed Seringapatam in 1799. The soldiers looted the city and parts of the palace. Order was restored after two days by hanging and flogging some of the looters. As was usual, the royal treasury was then divided up between the army. The wooden tiger with an organ inside its body was discovered in the palace’s music room and shipped to London. As “Tippoo’s Tiger” it became one of the most popular
noises were produced that supposedly imitated the European victim’s dying wails of agony. The tiger came to South Kensington when the Indian Museum’s collection was split up in 1879.」
Along with Valour and Cowardice displayed nearby, these are full-size models for two bronze allegorical sculptures for a monument to the Duke of Wellington. Here, Truth tears out the double tongue of Falsehood and pushes aside the mask concealing his grotesque features. His serpent-like tails are exposed beneath the drapery.
London
Plaster
Completed memorial to the Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) in St Paul’s Cathedral, London
Along with Truth and Falsehood displayed nearby, these are full-size models for two bronze allegorical sculptures for a monument to the Duke of Wellington. Indebted to the powerful figures of Michelangelo, these pieces also influenced the next generation of artists. Stevens devoted much of his career to this monument but sadly did not live to see it installed.
London
Plaster
Completed memorial to the Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) in St Paul’s Cathedral, London
「ヒントゼ彫刻ギャラリー(The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries, Gallery 21)」。
18~19世紀のイギリスを中心とする肖像胸像。
白大理石による写実的な表現で、政治家・芸術家・思想家・文学者などの顔立ちを残していた。 手前から ・William Stuart ・John Raphael Smith ・George II ・???
ヴィンチェンツォ・フォッジーニ作 「サムソンとペリシテ人(Samson Slaying a Philistine)」 。
廻り込んで。
「Vincenzo Foggini (active 1692–1755)
Samson and the Philistines
Signed and dated 1749
Here, the Old Testament hero Samson uses the jawbone of an ass to kill two of the Philistines who were taunting him. For this work, the Florentine sculptor Foggini reinterpreted a dramatic pose created nearly 200 years earlier by the celebrated sculptor Giambologna, whose studio Foggini had inherited. Giambologna’s marble, Samson Slaying a Philistine, is displayed in the Medieval & Renaissance gallery.
Florence
Marble
Puchased by Charles Watson-Wentworth, then Lord Malton (1730–82), later 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, for Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.
Museum no. A.1-1991
Purchased with Art Fund support, and the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Murray Bequest」
In Greek mythology Pandora was the first mortal woman, created as a gift and punishment to men. Jupiter endowed her with a box, strictly instructing her not to open it. As Gibson put it, ‘The figure is motionless, but her mind is in full activity, labouring under the harassing feelings of intense curiosity, fear and perplexity.’ Pandora’s curiosity prevailed, and all the evils in the box were released upon humankind.
・題名:Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam(アダムの声を聞くイヴ)
・署名・制作年:1842年
・材質:大理石
・所蔵:ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館(V&A, ロンドン)
・館蔵番号:468-1875
・寄贈者:Wynn Ellis
「Edward Hodges Baily (1788–1867)
Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam
Signed and dated 1842
This sculpture illustrates a scene from John Milton’s poem, Paradise Lost.
Turning to Adam to describe ‘a shape within the watery gleam’, Eve is told it is her own reflection. Critics admired her parted lips and raised eyes, ‘as if every sense were occupied in the work of listening’. Baily was re-interpreting his earlier work, Eve at the Fountain (about 1818), one of the most famous sculptures of the time.
ヴィクトリア&アルバート博物館(V&A) のヒントゼ彫刻ギャラリー (The Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries, Gallery 21)をさらに進む。
「Zephyr and Flora(ゼピュロスとフローラ)」。
「Antonio Corradini (1668–1752)
Zephyr and Flora
About 1719–23
Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and the wife of Zephyr, the west wind of springtime. This sculpture and the nearby Apollo Flaying Marsyas belonged to a series that Corradini made for Augustus II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, for his gardens in Dresden, now Germany. An important patron of the arts, Augustus II collected and commissioned works from artists across Europe.
Joshua Ward was a renowned philanthropist who founded several hospitals for the poor. Known at the time as a ‘quack doctor’, he was not medically trained but made his fortune by concocting popular patent medicines. This figure may have been intended for a planned monument in Westminster Abbey, which was never built. His hand gesture indicates generosity, while his bulky figure suggests prosperity.
London
Marble
Museum no. A.2-1991
Purchased with the assistance of funds from the bequest of Hugh Phillips, Esq.」
Monument to Thomas (1694–1732) and Robert Crosse (1671–1741)
About 1745
The figure in mourning represents Mary Martin, who commissioned this monument in memory of her nephew and brother. Taylor was a successful architect who also designed memorials. He is believed to have made this monument as one of his numerous drawings closely resembles it.
London
Marble
From the church of St Andrew, Nettlewell, Essex
Museum no. A.60-1969
Given by the Rector and churchwardens of St Stephen’s Tye Green with St Andrew’s Nettlewell, Essex」
This figure of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, wears a headdress of flowers and wheat, and holds a similar garland. Its base is almost certainly copied from a marble fountain. The figure would originally have been displayed in a stately home, possibly as part of a series of Roman deities. Previous owners considered it an allegorical portrait of the Duchess of Marlborough or Queen Anne, but it may simply represent ideal female beauty.
Large-scale groups in various materials were used as focal points for devotion in chapels and churches throughout Europe. Terracotta was particularly popular in Tuscany and around Bologna.
Terracotta groups on this scale were difficult to make. The figures here were each constructed separately. Mary Magdalene on the right, is now in several pieces and probably shattered after the first (or biscuit) firing. This prevented a second firing to fix the glazes, so instead the figures were painted.
The stained glass panels in these two galleries come from the churches of Germany, Switzerland or the Upper Rhine region of Cologne. Most were made on the Premonstratensian Abbey of Steinfeld, some for the Cistercian abbey of Altenberg.
The ateliers were both broad-based in skills, and their detailed glass was cut and engraved. The Altenberg panels were later dismantled when the church was rebuilt in the 19th century. When the Altenberg glass was sold in 1819, it was bought by a private collector who then gave it to the V&A.
ADÉLHILD, WIFE OF ARNOLD VON ULSF, WITH ST JAMES THE LESS
About 1520
Donating families and leading burghers often appear as kneeling donors, shown being presented by a saint.
Adelheid, the donor, is shown behind a draped desk with her coat of arms clearly visible and holding the arms of her husband. She is presented by St James the Less, apostle, who is identified by a club (his attribute). The stained glass was made for Altenberg Abbey, near Cologne.
PETER VON SCHÜRFF WITH ST PETER
About 1520
Probably Cistercian Abbey of Altenberg, near Cologne.
The donor of this panel, Peter von Schürff, the lawyer, was presented by St Peter holding the keys of Heaven. Such panels are typical of the period and show the importance of devout families and burghers in commissioning stained glass windows for religious institutions.」
「ST JAMES THE GREATER, THE VIRGIN AND THE ANGEL GABRIEL, ST SIMON
About 1360–90
The figures belonged to a now-dismantled winged altarpiece in the church of St John in Lüneburg. Until 1856, the church had over forty altarpieces. This one probably showed the Coronation of the Virgin, with standing figures to each side. Their robes were originally gilded to emulate the richness of goldsmiths’ work.