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Pio Fedi (1815–1892) was an Italian sculptor who worked chiefly in the Romantic style. He is best known for his sculpture of the Rape of Polyxena, or Pyrrhus and Polyxena (unveiled 1866), in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy.
In Greek mythology, Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. An oracle had prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena's brother, Prince Troilus, reached the age of twenty. During the Trojan War, Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior Achilles, who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena. Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions. Achilles in his trust of Polyxena told her of his only vulnerability: his vulnerable heel. It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena's brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, ambushed Achilles and shot him in the heel with an arrow, supposedly guided by the hand of Apollo himself, steeped in poison. According to Euripides, however, in his plays The Trojan Women and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War. Achilles' ghost had come back to the Greeks to demand the human sacrifice of Polyxena so as to appease the wind needed to set sail back to Hellas. She was to be killed at the foot of Achilles' grave. Hecuba, Polyxena's mother, filled with despair at the death of another of her daughters. Polyxena was killed after almost all of her brothers and sisters.
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Pio Fedi (1815–1892) was an Italian sculptor who worked chiefly in the Romantic style. He is best known for his sculpture of the Rape of Polyxena, or Pyrrhus and Polyxena (unveiled 1866), in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy.
In Greek mythology, Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. An oracle had prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena's brother, Prince Troilus, reached the age of twenty. During the Trojan War, Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior Achilles, who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena. Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions. Achilles in his trust of Polyxena told her of his only vulnerability: his vulnerable heel. It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena's brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, ambushed Achilles and shot him in the heel with an arrow, supposedly guided by the hand of Apollo himself, steeped in poison. According to Euripides, however, in his plays The Trojan Women and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War. Achilles' ghost had come back to the Greeks to demand the human sacrifice of Polyxena so as to appease the wind needed to set sail back to Hellas. She was to be killed at the foot of Achilles' grave. Hecuba, Polyxena's mother, filled with despair at the death of another of her daughters. Polyxena was killed after almost all of her brothers and sisters.
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The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians. Giovan Battista Niccolini is one of these. The Statue of Liberty (whose official name is Liberty Enlightening the World) illuminates New York harbor with her torch has a precursor in the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. The Florentine statue represents the liberty of poetry and thus the liberty of art and of the creative genius in general. In her left hand she holds a lyre and a crown of laurel and in her right hand, which is held aloft, she holds the remnants of a broken chain, the symbol of defeated tyranny. She differs from her stern American cousin in her more feminine form, in the gentle grace of her pose. The possibility that this statue, sculpted by Pio Fedi, was the inspiration, or one of the sources of inspiration, for her bigger cousin cannot be dismissed; a plaster cast of the Santa Croce statue, identical to the final statue, had already been completed in 1872, after preparatory drawings had been in circulation in contemporary artistic circles for quite some time. This statue in marble was commissioned in 1871 for the tomb of Giovan Battista Niccolini on the tenth anniversary of his death. It was completed by 1877 and installed in the Basilica and inaugurated in 1883 in honor if this hero of the Italian Risorgimento (Resurgence).
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Pio Fedi (1815–1892) was an Italian sculptor who worked chiefly in the Romantic style. He is best known for his sculpture of the Rape of Polyxena, or Pyrrhus and Polyxena (unveiled 1866), in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy.
In Greek mythology, Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. An oracle had prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena's brother, Prince Troilus, reached the age of twenty. During the Trojan War, Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior Achilles, who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena. Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions. Achilles in his trust of Polyxena told her of his only vulnerability: his vulnerable heel. It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena's brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, ambushed Achilles and shot him in the heel with an arrow, supposedly guided by the hand of Apollo himself, steeped in poison. According to Euripides, however, in his plays The Trojan Women and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War. Achilles' ghost had come back to the Greeks to demand the human sacrifice of Polyxena so as to appease the wind needed to set sail back to Hellas. She was to be killed at the foot of Achilles' grave. Hecuba, Polyxena's mother, filled with despair at the death of another of her daughters. Polyxena was killed after almost all of her brothers and sisters.
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