The Veiled Rebecca displayed at the Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India
Artist
Giovanni Maria Benzoni
Year
1863
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
160 cm × 58 cm × 50 cm (64 in × 23 in × 19.5 in)
The Veiled Rebecca or The Veiled Rebekah is a 19th century sculpture carved out of marble in Italian neoclassical style by the sculptor Giovanni Maria Benzoni.The sculpture is also referred as The Veiled Lady in several records. It depicts a biblical figure of Rebecca placed on a marble pedestal.[1]
Originally several copies of the sculpture were made by Benzoni in two different sizes. Presently, location of five sculptures are identified - High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, listed in the catalog as The Veiled Rebekah and dated 1864,[2] Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Dated c. 1866,[3]Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (This smaller version (113 cm tall) is listed in the catalog as The Veiled Lady and dated 1872),[4]Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India. Dated 1876 (three years after Benzoni's death).[5] Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois.[6]) The one located in Detroit Institute of Arts, is the smaller version.[7]
The stature was described in an 19th-century English art journal: "Benzoni, the fashionable Roman sculptor, whose studio has been visited by a number of crowned heads, exhibits in his suite of showrooms, several replicas in different sizes of his Diana, his veiled Rebecca before her meeting with Isaac, the 'Four Seasons', etc."[8]
^Darr, Alan P.; Roney, Lara Lea (2020-01-01). "The Reach of Antonio Canova's "Angelic Hand": A New Acquisition and Reflections of Canova's Legacy in European Neoclassical Sculpture". Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 94 (1): 74–91. doi:10.1086/714902. ISSN 0011-9636.
^"The Veiled Rebekah". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
^"Sculpture". Bershire Museum. Archived from the original on December 7, 2011. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
^"The Veiled Lady". Detroit Institute of Arts. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
^"Veiled Rebekah". Museums of India. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
^"Creativity redefined: Founders of Cedarhurst Center for the Arts bestowed an appreciation of fine art". Life & Style in Southern Illinois. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
^Darr, Alan P.; Roney, Lara Lea (2020-01-01). "The Reach of Antonio Canova's "Angelic Hand": A New Acquisition and Reflections of Canova's Legacy in European Neoclassical Sculpture". Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 94 (1): 74–91. doi:10.1086/714902. ISSN 0011-9636.
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