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Desconhecido (Escultor romano)
Sarcophagus, 140-200
Author:
Desconhecido (Escultor romano)Bio:
Title:
SarcophagusDate:
140-200Medium:
MármoreDimensions:
94 x 212 x 70 cmCredit line:
Doação Clemente de Faria; Antonio Sanches de Larragoiti Junior; Miguel Maurício; Alberto Soares Sampaio; Banco do Estado de São Paulo S.A; Companhia Siderúrgica Belgo-Mineira S.A., 1950Object type:
SarcófagoInventory number:
MASP.00441Photography credits:
João Musa
Sarcophagus: Three sides show in relief, scenes from the myth of Meleager; on the right smaller side: the death of Meleager from an arrow shot by Apollo, on the left smaller side: Althea (the mother of Meleager) in the presence of an Erinys, is burning on an altar the magic firebrand that has, until then, preserved her son’s life, and on the front larger side: the bringing of Meleager’s body to Calydon, the land of his birth.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).