Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Eight molds of antique statues in artifical stone are placed in niches in the walls of the cloister. Between 1841 and 1844, sixteen statues were purchased to adorn these niches, but only eight remain.

Terreaux (North) side		Herriot (East) side
Vénus Génitrix / Venus Genetrix after a Roman replica of a prototype of Aphridite, attributed to Callimachus, late fifth century BC. (Wikipedia).	Antinoüs du Capitole / Capitoline Antinous after a Roman Imperial era copy of, now considered, an early 4th century BC Greek statue of Hermes (Wikipedia).	Vénus de Médicis / Venus de' Medici after a 1st-century BCE marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture (Wikipedia).	Ephèbe ou l'Athlète / Ephebe or the Athlete after the statue Stéphanos, 1st century BV (Wikipedia).
South side		Chevanard (West) side
Statue d'un jeune homme nu / Statue of a nude young man	Diane de Gabies / Diana of Gabii after a statue of a woman in drapery which probably represents the goddess Artemis and is traditionally attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles (Wikipedia).	Aphrodite du Capitole / Capitoline Venus after a 2nd century marble Roman replica of a Greek original from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. (Wikipedia).	le Discophore / The Discophorus after a bronze sculpture by the classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus or its many Roman marble copies (Wikipedia).

Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre

The garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre is a municipal garden located within the the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. It is a rectangular garden delimited by the arcades of the old cloister of the Benedictine abbey. It is located right in the city center on the peninsula. Like the Museum, the garden is open every day, except Tuesdays and holidays.

In the garden a number of sculptures of the museum is placed:

• Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme / Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul by Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
• L'Ombre ou Adam / The Shade or Adam by Auguste Rodin
• Le joueur de flûte / The Flute Player by Jean-André Delorme
• Giotto enfant dessinant une tête de bélier / Giotto as a Child, Drawing a ram's head by Jean-François Legendre-Héral
• Jeune athlète / Young athlete by Jean-Baptiste Larrivé
• Carpeaux au travail / Carpeaux at work by Antoine Bourdelle
• L'Âge d'airain / The Bronze Age or Adam by Auguste Rodin
• Chactas sur la tombe d'Atala / Chactas Meditating on Atala's Tomb by Francisque Duret
• Faune ivre / Drunken faun by Léon Cugnot

Marble sculptures

• Castalie ou Source de la poésie / Castalia or The Source of Poetry by Eugène Guillaume
• Agar et Ismaël / Hagar and Ishmael by François Sicard
• Gilliatt et la pieuvre / Gilliatt and the Octopus by Émile Joseph Carlier

• Copies des statues antiques / Castings from antique sculptures
• Portraits des plus célèbres artistes lyonnais / Portraits of the most famous artists of Lyon
• Moulages de la frise des Panathénées et de celle du monument des Néréides / Castings of the Panathenaic frieze and that of the Nereids monument [not photographed by us]

Sculptors

• Callimachus - Καλλίμαχος (second half of the 5th century BC), ancient Greek architect and sculptor (Wikipedia).
  
• Polykleitos - Πολύκλειτος - Polyclitus) (5th and early 4th century BC), ancient Greek sculptor (Wikipedia).
  
• Praxiteles - Πραξιτέλης (4th Century BC), Greek sculptor (Wikipedia).
  
• Stephanos - Στέφανος (1st century BC), ancient Greek sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, Jardin du palais Saint-Pierre.
• Google Arts and Culture, The Garden of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.
• Daniel F. Valot, Jeux et Photos de Lyon, Palais Saint Pierre.

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