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Article: Severed torsos and metaphorical transformations: Christina of Sweden's Sale delle Muse and Clytie in the Palazzo Riario-Corsini.
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- Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Art collecting in Rome during the second half of the seventeenth-century was punctuated by an enhanced interest in excavations, the trade of antiquities, and the publication of antiquarian studies. (1) Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated the throne in 1654 and moved to Rome in the following year, was among those responsible for elevating antiquarianism to the scholarly plane. (2) Her own collection of antiquities, obtained through purchases and excavations she herself financed, included over fifty large-scale statues of the highest quality, among them the Panisperna Venus (Fig. 1), Faun with a Goat (Fig. 2), and Bacchic Altar (Fig. 3), all now in the Prado Museum in ...
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... ... accumulated, they form an inventory of the ordinary that when viewed as a whole is both homely and lovely. Christina Narwicz's "Jamaican Fig" dominates one back wall, a lush, juicy concoction of paint in celebration of the organic. And around ...
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