© National Gallery of Scotland
The Monument to Philopappos, Athens
Artist: Giovanni Battista Lusieri (circa 1755 - 1821)
Location: National Gallery of Scotland
Date: circa 1805-1807
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 82.5 x 62.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £100,000 (Total: £300,000)
Vendor: James Mackinnon
Review number: 5991 (2007)
Provenance:
Private collection, London; Christie's, 2001; James Mackinnon.
Description:
The artist's only known oil painting, and one of only a handful of works to have survived from his residence of twenty years in Athens. The work has a close connection to Scotland through the long-term patronage of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (of Elgin Marbles fame). Lusieri worked as the Earl's resident artist and agent, in which capacity he was closely involved in the removal and transport of the Parthenon marbles and other antiquities. This arresting, hyper-realist image shows the funerary monument raised in ad 114-16 to Gaius Julius Antiochos Epiphanes Philopappos in Athens. The monument, survives today in much the same state as Lusieri recorded it.
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