Samson kills a Philistine
Samson kills a Philistine is a sculpture by the Flemish-Italian sculptor Giambologna (1529–1608). It shows the biblical figure Samson , who, according to a story in the Book of Judges ( Ri 15.15 EU ), killed 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey . Giambologna's sculpture, about 2.1 meters high, is the artist's earliest monumental work and was created in Florence around 1562 . It consists of a single block of marble that is only connected to the base of the statue in five narrow places. The group of two came to England via Spain in the 17th century, has been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London since 1954 as a central work of the local sculpture collection and is considered a major work of Mannerism . It is characterized by its spiral all-round view, so that it offers a different view from every angle.
The fight between Samson and his adversary was carried out by Giambologna on behalf of Francesco I de 'Medici and was intended for a fountain in Florence. According to a report by Filippo Baldinucci , the statue was in the house of the Ambassador of Florence and was given to the Duke of Lerma in 1607, along with Samson and the lion by the sculptor Cristoforo Stati (1556–1619) , who moved it to the Ribera Palace ( Palacio de la Ribera ) in the Spanish city of Valladolid . A picture of the originally planned fountain is preserved in the Uffizi in Florence. The bowl is now in the Island Garden of the Palace of Aranjuez , as part of a Bacchus -Brunnens the Flemish sculptor Jacques Jonghelinck (1530-1606). In 1623, King Philip IV of Spain gave the statue of Samson to the Prince of Wales, who was in Spain for marriage negotiations and who later became King of England as Charles I. He in turn presented them to his favorite, the Duke of Buckingham , who arranged for the transport to England. In 1762 King George III made a gift . his friend Thomas Worsley with the statue, who had it brought to his estate at Hovingham Hall in Yorkshire , from where it was acquired by the Victoria Albert Museum in 1953.
Individual evidence
- ^ Raphael Rosenberg: Le vedute della statua. Michelangelo's strategies for guiding the viewer.
- ↑ Arte en Valladolid (Spanish)
literature
- Raphael Rosenberg : Le vedute della statua. Michelangelo's strategies for guiding the viewer. In: Alessandro Nova and Anna Schreuers (eds.): Benvenuto Cellini. Art and Art Theory in the 16th Century. Cologne et al. 2003, pp. 217-235. On-line
Web links
- Victoria and Albert Museum: 'Samson Slaying a Philistine', by Giambologna, 1560-2
- Arte en Valladolid (Spanish) May 17, 2012, accessed April 11, 2016
