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Details. William Wetmore Story depicts the personification of Jerusalem among ruins based on a biblical passage from Lamentations in which the prophet Jeremiah writes of the Babylonians’ destruction of Jerusalem. Story used the Old Testament text as an opportunity to create the figure of a mournful woman caught amid dramatic events—a ...
6 de dic. de 2023 · William Wetmore Story, Cleopatra. William Wetmore Story, Cleopatra. What does this marble sculpture of Cleopatra tell us about race and the Civil War in the U.S.? William Wetmore Story, Cleopatra, marble, modeled 1858, carved 1865, 137.16 x 114.3 x 68.58 cm (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond). Speakers: Tyler Green and Beth Harris.
William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 -- October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor. He was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story, and graduated from Harvard College in 1838 at the age of nineteen. He moved to Italy in 1856 after receiving a commission for completing a bust of his late father, which resides in the Memorial Hall/Lowell ...
William Wetmore Story conceived this sculpture after the onset of the Civil War, and his letters confirm that he intended it to be a symbolic condemnation of African American slavery: "She is looking out of her black eyes into futurity and sees the terrible fate of her race. This is the theme of the figure -- Slavery on the horizon."
William Wetmore Story (1819 - 1896) RA Collection: People and Organisations Sculptor, writer, in Boston, U.S.A., and from 1856 in Rome.
primary name:Story, William Wetmore. Details. individual; author/poet; sculptor/medallist; journalist/critic; American (USA); Male. Life dates. 1819-1895. Biography. American sculptor, poet and critic. The son of the noted jurist Joseph Story and father of the sculptor Thomas Waldon painter Julian Russell Story (q.v.), he trained and practiced ...
Creator: William Wetmore Story; Date Created: 1865; carved 1868; Physical Dimensions: 82 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 27 1/2 in. (208.9 x 67.9 x 69.9 cm) Type: Sculpture; External ...
