Nude Figure after Bernini's "Sleeping Hermaphroditus"
This is a one-of-a-kind print at the original size: 48 in. x 60 in.
Ships directly to you (unframed and rolled in a shipping tube).
This is a one-of-a-kind print at the original size: 48 in. x 60 in.
Ships directly to you (unframed and rolled in a shipping tube).
This is a one-of-a-kind print at the original size: 48 in. x 60 in.
Ships directly to you (unframed and rolled in a shipping tube).
About this piece:
This digital drawing depicts the ancient sculpture, Sleeping Hermaphroditus. Restored by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculpture was relocated to the Louvre in Paris in 1807.
"In his investigation of the origins, Plato postulated that nature was impartible and perfect before the division of the sexes: the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite, was then described by Ovid in a passage of his Metamorphoses, which is the origin of the popularity of this subject. The Sleeping Hermaphrodite was an invention of Polykles in the period when families of Athenian artists started to work for Roman patrons, the arbiters of the new equilibrium in the Mediterranean (2nd century BC)"
-Galleria Borghese website, Roman