Completed in marble intarsia, an inlaying of coloured stones into white or black marble first made popular in the 15th Century (St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome contains some excellent examples), the Marmor Homericum remains in the South Cloisters of the Wilkins Building where it was first created and installed under the auspices of George Grote ...

2007年10月11日 · On a side wall not far from the statues of Flaxman and Locke, the Marmor Homericum was the first important work in England of this French sculptor, best known in France for his reliefs on the bronze doors of La Madeleine in Paris (1831-41).

Completed in marble intarsia, an inlaying of coloured stones into white or black marble first made popular in the 15th Century (St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome contains some excellent examples), the Marmor Homericum remains in the South Cloisters of the Wilkins Building where it was first created and installed under the auspices of George Grote ...

On a wall in the cloisters too is the Marmor Homericum (1863-5) by Baron Henri de Triqueti, a French sculptor best known in France for his reliefs on the bronze doors of La Madeleine in Paris (1831-41), and in England for the Triqueti Marbles in the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor (c.1863 onwards).

2016年3月11日 · Henri de Triqueti’s ‘Marmor Homericum,’ 1863-65 Security cameras in the South Cloisters revealed two people, in the middle of the night, decided to deface two of figures on the lower border — Mercury on the left, and a male Archer on the right.

2007年10月11日 · Near the statues of Flaxman and Locke in the south cloisters of University College is the Marmor Homericum (1863-5) by Baron Henri de Triqueti, a French sculptor best known in France for his reliefs on the bronze doors of La Madeleine in Paris (1831-41), and in England for the Triqueti Marbles in the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor (c.1863 ...

Marmor Homericum. The inhabitants of Delos listen spellbound as Homer recites the Illiad in this work commissioned by George Grote, one of UCL’s founders. Rustic Scene: Villagers Dancing. The first mural ever painted by Rex Whistler, an artist who led the revival of British mural painting in the 1920s and 30s.

Volume of drawings by Henri de Triqueti, concerning the creation of the tarsia 'Marmor Homericum', with captions and notes in French and English, 1863-1869.

Edition with photographs of the ‘Marmor Homericum’, a marble intarsia commissioned by the English historian George Grote (1794-1871) for the University College London. in 1863. Designed and executed by the French sculptor Henri-Joseph-François Triqueti (c.1803-1874), the work depicts Homer reciting the Iliad to the accompaniment of a lyre.

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