03 — ARTWORK
Polyphemus
- MEDIUM
- Marble, height 79 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Van Clève studied Annibale Carracci's frescoes in the Farnese Galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen). in Rome; his morceau de reception (presented in 1681), the Polyphemus, is directly derived in pose from <A onclick="return OpenOther('/html/c/carracci/annibale/farnese/farnes15.html')" href="/html/c/carracci/annibale/farnese/farnes15.html">Annibale's composition</A> there. Nevertheless, despite its derivative nature, the Polyphemus is important as the first reception piece to be a completely modelled statue and not a bas-relieflow relief, a sculptured relief in which the desighn stands out only a little from the background.. Its forceful musculature and robustly confident air initiate a whole series of such pieces.
CITE THIS RECORD — BIBTEX
@online{wga-r21dfc15e1da727,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Polyphemus by CLÈVE, Corneille van},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/clve-corneille-van-re3f79fbc505741/polyphemus-r21dfc15e1da727},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
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