File:Suvée, Joseph-Benoit - Milo of Croton.jpg
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Joseph-Benoît Suvée: Q21673294 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q2564914 |
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | Milo of Croton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1763 date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 261 cm (102.7 in); width: 200 cm (78.7 in) dimensions QS:P2048,261U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,200U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1948674 |
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Accession number |
GRO0377.I |
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Object history | This is a 1763 copy from Jean-Jacques Bachelier's painting, exhibited at the Salon de 1761, and now located at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | http://www.wga.hu/html/s/suvee/miloncro.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | vlaamsekunstcollectie.be | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/s/suvee/miloncro.html" |
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JPEG file comment | SUVÉE, Joseph-Benoit
(b. 1743, Brugge, d. 1807, Roma) Milo of Croton - Oil on canvas, 261 x 200 cm Groeninge Museum, Bruges Milo (or Milon) of Croton was a legendary Greek wrestler from the Greek settlement of Croton in southern Italy. He won the wrestling contest at five successive Olympic Games, and swept the board at all other festivals. A man of huge stature, he boasted that no one had ever brought him to his knees. It is said that he carried a live ox upon his shoulders through the stadium at Olympia, then ate it all in a single day. Tradition has it that in his old age, on seeing an oak tree partly split open with a wedge he tried to wrench it apart, but only succeeded in causing the wedge to fall out, thereby trapping his hands. He was left a helpless prey to the wild beast who soon finished him off. He is usually depicted in Baroque art as a partly naked muscular figure, his hands imprisoned by a tree trunk, and attacked by a lion. The undated, but still baroque Milo of Croton shows the Greek athlete being devoured by wolves, his hand caught in a cleft tree trunk. Milon's pose was borrowed from the famous Hellenistic statue of Laocoön. It is an early work and a copy after the Frenchman Jean Jacques Bachelier. You can view <A onclick="return OpenOther('http://www.wga.hu/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&&title=milo+AND+croton&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Depictions+of+Milo+of+Croton')%22 HREF="http://www.wga.hu/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&&title=milo+AND+croton&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Depictions+of+Milo+of+Croton%22>other depictions</A> of Milo of Croton in the Web Gallery of Art.
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