Sleeping Hermaphroditus [SEP] creator
Sleeping Hermaphroditus
The Sleeping Hermaphroditus is an ancient marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size. In 1620, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted the mattress upon which the statue now lies. The form is partly derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes, and partly from contemporaneous feminised Hellenistic portrayals of Dionysus/Bacchus. It represents a subject that was much repeated in Hellenistic times and in ancient Rome, to judge from the number of versions that have survived. Discovered at Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, the "Sleeping
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- "Salmacis et Hermaphrodite" by Jean Daullé
In art Sculpture.
- The most famous sculpture of this figure is the "Sleeping Hermaphroditus".
- "Hermaphroditus", Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
- A life size sculpture of Hermaphroditus from Pergamon is one of the largest found standing 186.5 cm tall at the İstanbul Archaeology Museums.
- A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon