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拍品專文
These life-size 'danseuses' or Danaïds are after the celebrated antiquities excavated in the Villa dei Papyri at Herculaneum in 1738. As with the majority of antiquities discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum, they were displayed in the Museo Borbonico, Naples, whose collection was first engraved by R. Gargiulio in his Raccolta de Monumenti piu interesante del Rl. Museo Borbonico, Naples, 1825. Five Danaïds manufactured at the celebrated Naples foundry established by the sculptor J. Chiurazzi in 1870 were sold Christie's London, 3 July 1996 sale 5610 lots 5,6,7.
J Chiurazzi, a pupil of Professore Pierre Masulli, a pioneering sculptor who successfully reproduced 'antique' sculpture in the manner of Benvenuto Cellini, Chiurazzi established himself in the Galleria Principe Di Napoli, Naples, next to the Museo Nazionale. Described as 'Danseuses', these figures featured as nos. 25-30 in the Catalogue of J. Chiurazzi & Fils, circa 1894. Although Churazzi concurred with Winkelman's (d.1738) identification as'danseuses', Stefano De Caro suggests that these 'Statue di Peplophorai' represent the Danaïds (Napoli, Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, 1994). According to classical mythology, the fifty daughters of Danaus, as the Danaïd's were known, were given in marriage to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, Danaus's brother with whom he had a longstanding quarrel. Danaus ordered his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night, supplying them with knives for the deed. All but one did so; Hypermnestra spared her husband, Lynceus, and they founded the line that produced Perseus and the Argive kings. The remaining forty-nine daughters were purified of their sins by Athena and Hermes, but as punishment for the murders they were condemned in Hades to carry water in amphorae with holes in the bottom. Celebrated in the Augustan era, the Danaïds embellished the portico of Apollo's Temple on the Palatine Hill, which was passed from Augustus Cesar to Nauloco and inaugurated in 28AD. Recalled in Pindar' 's Pythian Odes and the Suppliants of Aeschyllus, in the late eighteenth century, the latter provided the inspiration for John Flaxman's The Suppliants, engraved in 1795, by T. Piroli.
J Chiurazzi, a pupil of Professore Pierre Masulli, a pioneering sculptor who successfully reproduced 'antique' sculpture in the manner of Benvenuto Cellini, Chiurazzi established himself in the Galleria Principe Di Napoli, Naples, next to the Museo Nazionale. Described as 'Danseuses', these figures featured as nos. 25-30 in the Catalogue of J. Chiurazzi & Fils, circa 1894. Although Churazzi concurred with Winkelman's (d.1738) identification as'danseuses', Stefano De Caro suggests that these 'Statue di Peplophorai' represent the Danaïds (Napoli, Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, 1994). According to classical mythology, the fifty daughters of Danaus, as the Danaïd's were known, were given in marriage to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, Danaus's brother with whom he had a longstanding quarrel. Danaus ordered his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night, supplying them with knives for the deed. All but one did so; Hypermnestra spared her husband, Lynceus, and they founded the line that produced Perseus and the Argive kings. The remaining forty-nine daughters were purified of their sins by Athena and Hermes, but as punishment for the murders they were condemned in Hades to carry water in amphorae with holes in the bottom. Celebrated in the Augustan era, the Danaïds embellished the portico of Apollo's Temple on the Palatine Hill, which was passed from Augustus Cesar to Nauloco and inaugurated in 28AD. Recalled in Pindar' 's Pythian Odes and the Suppliants of Aeschyllus, in the late eighteenth century, the latter provided the inspiration for John Flaxman's The Suppliants, engraved in 1795, by T. Piroli.