Sleeping Hermaphroditus
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title:
Sleeping Hermaphroditus
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The Sleeping Hermaphrodite 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 s
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Ancient marble sculpture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Hermaphroditus
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2024-04-09T18:50:07Z
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