On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
| Revision as of 10:43, 23 August 2012 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) ← Previous diff |
Revision as of 10:44, 23 August 2012 Jahsonic (Talk | contribs) Next diff → |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| {{Template}} | {{Template}} | ||
| - | '''''The artist's despair before the grandeur of ancient ruins'''''[http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/422347434/the-artist-moved-by-the-grandeur-of-ancient] ([[German language|German]]: ''Der Künstler verzweifelnd vor der Grösse der antiken Trümmer'') is a [[drawing]] in red [[chalk]] with brown [[Wash (painting)|wash]] executed between 1778-1780 by [[Johann Heinrich Füssli]]. It shows a seated figure mourning beside the colossal hand and foot, part of a statue, namely that of the [[Colossus of Constantine]] at the [[Capitoline Museums]] in [[Rome]]. The work was acquired by the [[Kunsthaus Zürich]] in 1940. | ||
| - | The artist's despair may be caused by "the impossibility of emulating the greatness of the past" (''[[Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City]]''), by the knowledge that all things must decay, or by a sense of unfulfilled longing and dislocation. Distortions of [[Perspective (graphical)|perspective]] and the "plunge into the abyss" (ibid) along the right edge conjure up a sense of [[nightmare]]. [[SPQR]] may be read in the [[Epigraphy|inscription]] on the base of the foot, while vegetation sprouts up near the hand; the artist, in a "fit of [[melancholy]]", is dwarfed by the fragments of the past. | + | "'''On Seeing the Elgin Marbles'''" (1817) is a poem by Keats. |
| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[On Seeing the Elgin Marbles]] | ||
| - | * [[The only way for us to become great lies in the imitation of the Greeks]] | ||
| - | * [[Classicism]] | ||
| - | * [[Grandeur]] | ||
| - | * [[Neoclassicism]] | ||
| - | * [[Romanticism]] | ||
| - | * [[Roman sculpture]] | ||
| - | * [[Ruins]] | ||
| - | * [[Stendhal syndrome]] | ||
| - | * [[The Anxiety of Influence]] | ||
| {{GFDL}} | {{GFDL}} | ||
Revision as of 10:44, 23 August 2012
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (1817) is a poem by Keats.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
