{"id":5227,"date":"2023-11-22T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/una-and-the-lion\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:51:11","slug":"una-and-the-lion","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/una-and-the-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Una and the lion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">OTTAVIO BARTOLUCCI<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Italy, 19th century<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><p class=\"p1\"><em>Una and the lion<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">marble, cm 32,5&#215;27<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">signature on the base: Ottavio Bartolucci.<\/p>\n\n<p>This small sculpture represents a naked woman being carried on a lion\u2019s back, from whom the cloak that was covering her seems to have just slipped. Although the image could evoke ancient myths, it\u2019s actually a vision described by the epic poem The Faerie Queene, written by Edmund Spencer in 1590. The work is a great allegory of Christian virtues, and the protagonist can be identified as Queen Elizabeth I of England. &#13;\n<\/p>\n\n<p>The sculpture represents Una and the lion, a subject taken from the poem that enjoyed great success in the 19th century, given that another version with variants of this same image was presented at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. &#13;\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5226,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[51,42],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}