Friedrich Nerly, 1844 - Buffaloes dragging a block of marble - fine art print

Original information about the artwork by the museum's website (© - by Thorvaldsens Museum - www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk)

The following inscription has been hewn into the block: “XXIII Thorwaldsen Roma”. With this Roman numeral, Nerly has possibly intended to refer to the year, 1823, when Thorvaldsen was given the greatest commission of his life, the sepulchral monument to Pius VII. So it is tempting to imagine that the block of marble was intended for this work. The picture marks a stage in the marble’s long, difficult journey from the quarry to St Peter’s – from natural shape to artistic form. Nerly was born at Erfurt and lived in Rome from 1828. The first version of the motif from 1831 – the year in which the papal monument was unveiled – led to something of a breakthrough for Nerly, and he later produced several replicas. Thorvaldsen’s version is a slightly smaller replica. Nerly set out to return to his native Germany in 1835. However, he laid his route through Venice and became so fascinated by the city that he remained there for the rest of his life.

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"Buffaloes dragging a block of marble" is a work of art by the male German artist Friedrich Nerly. The original of the artwork had the following size - 74,5 x 99,4 cm. Oil on canvas was applied by the European artist as the medium of the masterpiece. This piece of art is in the the collection of Thorvaldsens Museum. With courtesy of: Friedrich Nerly, Buffaloes dragging a block of marble, 1844, Thorvaldsens Museum, www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk (public domain license).: . Besides this, the alignment is landscape with a side ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. Friedrich Nerly was a painter, whose artistic style can mainly be classified as Romanticism. The Romanticist artist lived for a total of 71 years, born in 1807 and deceased in the year 1878.

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