Date

1852

Object Type

Relief

Subject

Holding institution

Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara

About The Work

The high relief is the work of the sculptor Giuseppe Livi (Carrara 1828 – Buenos Aires ?). The artist attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, winning the scholarship in Rome in 1852; in 1860 he was appointed Honorary Professor. At the centre of the work Achilles is depicted on a racing chariot drawn by two horses, turning toward the corpse of Hector, who is bound and dragged by the chariot; to the left two Achaeans observe the scene, while in the background, at the summit of a funerary stele, a trophy of arms is placed. No documentation relating to the work has been preserved; the only existing records state that it won the gold medal at the Invention competition of 1852, while the silver medal was awarded to Giuseppe Ferdinando Lazzerini. In the plaster cast gallery (gipsoteca) of the Accademia di Carrara no other works attributable to Giuseppe Livi are preserved; however, a marble portrait of Luigi Bienaimé is held there, which his father Vincenzo had sent to the Accademia di Carrara in 1858.

Title

Achilles drags Hector’s body around the walls of Troy

Date

1852

Object Type

Relief

Original Function

Pensionato. Awarded with the gold medal in 1852.

Technique / Support

Cast

Dimensions

cm 138

Holding institution

Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara

Bibliography and archival sources

Russian S., Carozzi R. (edited by), La gipsoteca dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Massa, 1996.

Unique identifier

ICCD_MINV_0401657334671