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Sarcophage representant l'histoire des Niobides. Vatican
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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
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- Albumen silver print
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- British
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Photograph showing one side of the Niobid Sarcophagus in the Vatican Museums' collection. The visible relief panel depicts a scene from the Greek mythological story of the death of the Niobids, children of Amphion and Niobe, who were slain by the gods, Artemis and Apollo. Various male and female figures are carved into the panel, some slump over while others express anguish. Artemis and Apollo are portrayed as female and male archers on the left and right areas of the image respectively.
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