Winter Grand Tour Roundel bacchic scene after Edward Wyon

after Edward Wyon

A fine neoclassical bust of Paris by the world renowned marble carver

a marble relief with him wearing a laurel crown

Bernini transformed classical mythology into dynamic

" controller of earthquakes

Winter Grand Tour Roundel bacchic scene after Edward WyonRoundel depicting Winter, after Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770 1844. A plaque depicting winter, one of a set of four, called `The four seasons`. After Antonio Canova, Thorvaldsen was the most important Neoclassical sculptor in Europe. Son of an Icelandic wood carver, who was born in Copenhagen, and as an adult, he went to live and work, from the art capital of Europe, Rome, where his work soon became sought after. The originals are in the Thorvaldsen