Showing posts with label Vatican museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican museum. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

Mortality


Everywhere you look in Roman statuary, you can’t help but notice how strength is optimistically portrayed, as seen by this image of a female sculpture from the Vatican Museum. To visually challenge that ideal, I have incorporated an image of a relief on a tombstone, in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. The relief depicts a powerful scene of a woman being led away by an angel, while the husband and four children grieve.

Size: (h x w) 18" x 24" framed
Media: Original digital print on canvas
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