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Le Torse du Belvedère. 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
- d214c47b-9531-41cd-b135-53bbb756f740
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Photograph of a fragmentary statue known as the "Belvedere Torso." The statue depicts a nude male figure seated on an animal hide, lacking a head and limbs.
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