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Theseus and the Minotaur is a 1781-1782 white marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which bought it in 1962. [1] The sculpture in Room 22 of the V&A. The work was commissioned by Girolamo Zulian, Venetian ambassador to Rome and one of Canova's patrons, who also gave him the marble block for it, one ...
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) Theseus and the Minotaur 1782 Based on the ancient Greek myth, this sculpture represents the moment after the Greek hero Theseus has killed the Minotaur (a half-man, half-bull monster).
Antonio Canova. Theseus and the Minotaur. 1781. Plaster. Location. Gypsotheca, Nineteenth century wing. Theseus is sitting on the minotaur in a triumphant act, he is holding the club that helped him put the beast down. The minotaur is laying, in an unnatural pose, exsanguinated, with a human body and the head of a torus.
Oct 14, 2023 · Theseus and Minotaur is a sculptor showing a man sitting on a bull-headed monster. Antonio Canova designed and curved it in 1782 from marble. The statue was 145.5 cm long, 158.7cm wide, and 91.4 cm high at the time of creation.
The V&A holds two of Canova's most emblematic pieces, 'The Three Graces', jointly owned by National Museums Scotland, and 'Theseus and the Minotaur', which were transported to England before the artist's death in 1822.
For the originality of the mythological theme in sculpture, Canova was inspired by the observation of several ancient marbles (including the sleeping Faun of the collection by Vincenzo Pacetti...
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Theseus and the Minotaur is a 1781-1782 white marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which bought it in 1962.
