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Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
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Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
Consol
Night clock
Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
application
Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
Consol
Night clock

Adonis

Filippo Parodi

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Royal Palace Museum

Royal Palace Museum

Via Balbi, 10, Genoa

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The four sculptures are part of the famous series called The Metamorphoses which has decorated the Gallery of Mirrors since the eighteenth century. Filippo Parodi, the greatest Genoese sculptor of the seventeenth century, after having assimilated the lesson of Gian Lorenzo Bernini to Rome, translated into marble with great virtuosity and poetic sensitivity some of the myths taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses Fables that tell of young people and nymphs transformed by the gods into natural elements as happens to Adonis changed from Venus into an anemone and Clizia transfigured into a sunflower by Apollo.
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Title: Adonis

Author: Filippo Parodi

Date: 1690

Technique: Marble sculpture

Displayed in: Royal Palace Museum

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