Sculpture #8 - Drawing

Chapter 8 - Sculpture & Drawing 


Belvedere Torso

- marble, 1st century BC/AD (copy of an older statue probably dated to the early 2nd century BC)
- Museo Pio-Clementino (Vatican)

A fragmentary marble statue of a nude male, signed on the front base by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", who is unmentioned in ancient literature.


Rubens’ drawing of the Belvedere Torso

Belvedere Torso
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640, Flemish)
- pencil & black chalk on paper (38 × 27 cm) 1601-1602
- Rubenshuis (Antwerp)

Michelangelo's drawing of Saint Bartholomew  
..... strongly echoes the Belvedere Torso.

Saint Bartholomew (in The Last Judgement)
 - Michelangelo (1475–1564, Italian) 1535-1541
- Sistine Chapel (Vatican)

Verdi (1813 – 1901) - [Messa da] Requiem 

- Section 2 of 7 - Dies irae (Day of Wrath)

The 13th century Latin hymn describes the day of judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God, where the saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames.

Source: Wikipedia

Reference: Learning to Look at Sculpture (Mary Acton)