Re: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)
Posted: 21 May 2009, 21:00
Here is the catalog entry from the Louvre Atlas database. (Also the Louvre photo.)
It sounds like the chair was carved by the sculptor F.A. Franzoni, incorporating portions of the two ancient Greek sphinx carvings.
Apparently, F. A. Franzoni was a 17th c. artist who liked to reconstruct ancient antiquities.
Here is a link to a repro of a Roman chariot sculpture he did:
(I'm sure there are more scholarly references to him than this one, but for this discussion it will do.)
http://www.zhkis.com/browseproducts/Cha ... pture.html
ETA:
A little further googling shows tht Franzoni lived from 1734-1818, so it's more likely 18th c. than 17th.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6bOLJ3 ... t&resnum=1
The louvre entry:
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Collections du Vatican
Trône d'une prêtresse de Cérès
Marbre
H. : 1,68 m. ; L. : 1,05 m. ; Pr. : 1 m.
Comme le trône du « prêtre de Bacchus », ce siège est une oeuvre du XVIIIe siècle, ici due au sculpteur F. A. Franzoni, à partir de quelques éléments antiques (une partie des deux sphinx).
Anciennes collections du musée Pio-Clementino du Vatican
Saisie napoléonienne, 1798
Département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines
Inventaire MR 997
(n° usuel Ma 394)
It sounds like the chair was carved by the sculptor F.A. Franzoni, incorporating portions of the two ancient Greek sphinx carvings.
Apparently, F. A. Franzoni was a 17th c. artist who liked to reconstruct ancient antiquities.
Here is a link to a repro of a Roman chariot sculpture he did:
(I'm sure there are more scholarly references to him than this one, but for this discussion it will do.)
http://www.zhkis.com/browseproducts/Cha ... pture.html
ETA:
A little further googling shows tht Franzoni lived from 1734-1818, so it's more likely 18th c. than 17th.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6bOLJ3 ... t&resnum=1
The louvre entry:
---------------------------
Collections du Vatican
Trône d'une prêtresse de Cérès
Marbre
H. : 1,68 m. ; L. : 1,05 m. ; Pr. : 1 m.
Comme le trône du « prêtre de Bacchus », ce siège est une oeuvre du XVIIIe siècle, ici due au sculpteur F. A. Franzoni, à partir de quelques éléments antiques (une partie des deux sphinx).
Anciennes collections du musée Pio-Clementino du Vatican
Saisie napoléonienne, 1798
Département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines
Inventaire MR 997
(n° usuel Ma 394)