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Kolonáda Květné zahrady v Kroměříži a Seneca Pamphilj
| Title in English | Colonnade of Kroměříž´s Flower Garden and Seneca Pamphilj |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Auriga. Zprávy Jednoty klasických filologů |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | Kroměříž; Seneca; antiquity; baroque art; iconography; sculpture |
| Description | This article analyses the sculpture of dying Seneca located in the colonnade in Kroměříž Flower Garden. The model for Kroměříž´s Seneca comes from printed serie Villa Pamphilia eiusque Palatium by Giovanni Giacomo Rossi mapping sculptures of Villa Pamphilj in Rome (1649). Kroměříž´s Seneca was made after Hellenistic sculpture that was originally placed in Casino del Belrespiro and nowadays is exhibited in Vatican Museums. In the early modern period the sculpture was considered as a depiction of dying Seneca, alike its more famous counterpart, so called Seneca Borghese (Musée du Louvre). According to the current interpretation, both of these sculptures are depictions of an old fisherman. First, the article explores the iconographical motive of dying Seneca in the early modern period. Secondly, it argues that the Kroměříž colonnade was built to manifest various forms of self-representation of the commissioner, Olomouc bishop Charles of Liechtenstein-Castelkorn. |
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