Hector lying on his funeral pyre
19th century
Medium
White marble
Dimensions
Pedestal, 33-1/4 x 33 in. (84.5 x 83.8 cm); L. 46 in. (116.8 cm.)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
Italian, Rome
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Kip, 1899
Accession Number
99.9f
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 1809–1873
**Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1809–1873)** was an Italian neoclassical sculptor renowned for his elegant marble figures that captured the refined tastes of 19th-century collectors on the Grand Tour. Born on August 28, 1809, in the small mountain village of Songavazzo near Bergamo to a family of modest means, Benzoni began his working life as a shepherd and then as an apprentice carpenter in his uncle’...