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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae

Massimo Tapparelli d'Azeglio

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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It is an unfinished study of the painting now in the Racconigi castle. The work can be dated on the basis of a letter from d'Azeglio to his brother Roberto dated 24 March 1823: I made a painting, finished only a few days ago, of Leonidas' death; it represents the moment in which he falls defended by a few of the his survivors, on one side the army of Xerxes who pursue, on the other the Thermopylae ..., in the background the Artemisio bosom with boats, triremes, fires, tents ... In advance of the more famous Montmorency, the painting proposed the encounter between landscape painting and subjects inspired by historical episodes. The link with the contemporary Roman neoclassical artistic environment is more pronounced than in Montmorency, in particular in the meticulous definition of the plant elements and in the razor-sharp scanning of the planes. The final draft will give a different interpretation both of the landscape (enlarged on the view of the gulf and softened in a diffused light), and of the clash, fragmented in various duels.
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Title: Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae

Author: Massimo Tapparelli d'Azeglio

Date: 1823

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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