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Emulating Antiquity

January 26, 2019– February 16, 2020
Nineteenth-Century European Sculpture

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  • Emulating Antiquity

    Emulating Antiquity: Nineteenth-Century European Sculpture installed in the Hood Museum's Engles Family Gallery. Photo by Jeffrey Nintzel. 

  • Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, Gloria Victis (Glory to the Vanquished), after 1875, bronze. Purchased through a gift from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940; S.999.5.2.

    Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, Gloria Victis (Glory to the Vanquished), after 1875, bronze. Purchased through a gift from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940; S.999.5.2.

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Powerful ancient goddesses and heroic warriors populate this gallery of French, British, and American sculpture from the 19th century. Accompanied by Lawrence Alma Tadema's monumental painting The Sculpture Gallery from the mid-1870s—a treatise on the legacy of ancient Greek and Roman art—the works testify to the prominent place of figural sculpture at this time. The lenses through which we view this art have shifted in the last thirty years, prompting the exploration of themes from homoeroticism and sexuality to changing aesthetic ideals.

Exhibition Curator

Katherine W. Hart