Priam Pleads with Achilles for Hector's Body

105 (likes)
8220 (views)
This product is available only if you have an account in My Mini Factory service
×
Color:

During the siege of Troy Achilles’ friend Patrocles was killed by Hector, the Trojan king Priam’s son. As revenge Achilles therefore killed Hector. The relief depicts how the old king Priam begs Achilles on his knees to turn over the body of his son. The relief is unique with its rhythm of the three figures on the left that like in a filmic sequence ends in the kneeling figure of Priam, and also the distance – physically and mentally – which exists between the elevated Greek hero and the old king. The themes of the relief are on a general level humility and mercifulness. Achilles in the end gives in to the plea of the father and hands over the body of the son. This marble work was executed by Georg Christian Freund under the supervision of C.C. Peters after Thorvaldsen's original plaster model of 1815 (inv.no. A492)

About the author:
Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsens Museum opened on 18 September 1848 and was the first public museum building in Denmark. The characteristic museum building was built to exhibit the extensive life’s work of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) and today still looks more or less as it did when it opened over 150 years ago. Thorvaldsens Museum also contains Thorvaldsen's drawings and sketches for sculptures and reliefs. In addition Thorvaldsen was a passionate collector, so the museum also exhibits his extensive collections of paintings from his own time and collections of artworks and objects from Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity. The museum also shows changing exhibitions that go into greater depth with aspects of the permanent collections, including contemporary art.

Reviews

This model have no reviews. Would you like to be the first to review? You need to print it first.