Menelao
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The subject comes from a Hellenistic sculpture that was copied many times: Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus, killed beneath the walls of Troy. A Roman copy of the group stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. Another fragment, worn by time, is the Pasquino in Rome, the statue on which Romans used to post their satires.
From the hero I took only the head, with the great crested helmet and the upward gaze. The work is digital. The red line follows the style of sanguine, the red chalk of Renaissance drawings, and the gold ground carries cracks and abrasions, like a fresco detached from a wall.
I meant it for a wall from the first day, so I present it already framed. In the round frame it recalls the medallions of palazzi; in the square frame it becomes a portrait.
Limited-edition print on professional paper.
