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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea

Anonymous

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The scene is permeated by an idyllic atmosphere and takes place in a mountainous landscape. The sacred character of the context is defined by the architectural element of a small temple decorated with fluttering pearl ribbons, within which a statue with a short chiton and a naos decorated in relief surrounded by ribbons, placed a little further down, is visible on an altar. The two main characters, interpreted as the Cyclops Polyphemus and the sea nymph Galatea, occupy a large part of the figurative field and are presented in three quarters, half naked, sitting on a rocky spur covered by the skin of a lion, while they flirt. At the center of the scene stands a sacred tree with fronds laden with inflorescences, perhaps a sycamore tree, from whose twisted trunk a large cut branch branches off to which a bundle full of fruit is tied. The landscape is completed by two female goats (Mambrina breed?) With long hanging ears and twisted horns, a thick curly fleece, intent on grazing shrubs and flowers, while a crouching male with spiral horns rests. The relief, of high artistic quality, expresses the erotic theme of the myth according to iconographic patterns and models that derive from the figurative repertoires of the Hellenistic sphere elaborated in the Alexandrian area.
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Title: Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea

Author: Anonymous

Date: II d.C.

Technique: White marble

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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