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Le Persée de Canova. Vatican
Creator
James AndersonBritish Photographer · 1813–1877
All works by this person →James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England and studied painting in Paris as William Nugent Dunbar. In 1838 he moved to Rome and began to produce sculpture as James Anderson, which remained his professional name. Eleven years later he took up photography, opening a studio in Rome in 1853. Anderson specialized in reproductions of works of art, publishing frequent catalog
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- 1859
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- bf4282bc-605f-4a33-b3bf-b93abf64769f
From the Getty Museum record
Photograph of a statue known as "Perseus Triumphant" by Antonio Canova. The statue depicts a victorious Perseus holding up the severed head of the Medusa with his left hand. Perseus is shown here as a nude male figure wearing a winged cap and a cloth on his upper left arm that drapes down to the ground, and holding a sword with his other hand.
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