Artist: Dame Barbara Hepworth
Datum: 1958
Velikost: 90 x 15 cm
Muzeum: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland, New Zealand)
Technika: Sculpture
This work belongs to a group of three bronzes made in 1958. While Torso I (Ulysses) and Torso III (Galatea) were inspired by a visit to Greece, former Auckland Art Gallery director Peter Tomory first suggested that Torso II (Torcello) has links to the mosaic Virgin and Child from the ancient cathedral of S. Maria Assunta on Torcello, a small island in the Venice Lagoon. The Torcello Madonna shows an elongated Virgin Mary on an enormous scale, holding her infant child so that his head is raised above her left shoulder against a sea of gold mosaic. Describing her Greek visit Hepworth said,
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