Sujet

Phalaris and the Bull of Perillus, 1590/1600. Creator: Giovanni Battista Caccini.

Légende

Phalaris and the Bull of Perillus, 1590/1600. [The brazen bull was allegedly a torture and execution device designed by Perilaus of Athens who offered it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas in Sicily. The condemned were locked inside the lifesize bronze bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death.]. Attributed to Giovanni Caccini.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21B06_454

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,7Mo (3,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,8cm / 4960 x 3998 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal Italy Italian people male man men arts country statue statues sculpture art guy burning fire color death bull Greece cruelty terracotta Renaissance ceramic location ceramics century gallery plaque concept ruler punishment mythology TORTURE cruel punishing art gallery gruesome Colour execution Ancient Greece 16th century Ancient Greek executing sixteenth century tyrant Bull of Phalaris TGN Perillus Phalaris object Perillus of Athens Art Institute of Chicago torture device art centre Heritage Art terracotta with traces of polychromy brazen bull bronze bull Giovanni Battista Caccini Caccini Giovanni Battista Caccini Giovanni-Battista Giovanni-Battista Caccini Art Institute Chicago Painting and Sculpture of Europe Sicilian bull Giovanni Caccini Caccini Giovanni Perillos Perilaus