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Sarcophage avec des têtes de lions. 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
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- British
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Photograph showing one side of a sarcophagus in the Vatican Museums' collection. The visible relief panel depicts a Bacchic or Dionysian procession and features two large lion heads. Various figures are carved into the panel, including the god, Bacchus or Dionysus, standing in the center of the panel while holding a thyrsus, a fennel staff topped with a pine cone associated with the Greco-Roman deity.
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