Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 8 Hiram Powers |
Reminiscences of 1865
Neoclassicism ~ About the Artist ~ About this Object ~ Look Questions ~ Think Questions
Key Points
- Hiram Powers based this NEOCLASSICAL marble PORTRAIT of George Washington on ancient Roman portrait BUSTS.
- Powers, like most American sculptors in the 19th century, spent most of his career in Italy, the home of great sculptural traditions since ancient Roman times.
- Although Washington's face is very NATURALISTIC, the toga he wears presents him in the IDEALIZED guise of a Roman senator.
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