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    Rape of Polyxena

    Museum Label:
    Rape of Polyxena
    20th-century stone variant of marble original by Pio Fedi (Italian, 1816-1872), 1866
    Location: Loggia dei Lanzi, Rome

    Please note:
    The museum's sculpture resembles Pio Fedi's original, but is rather different.

    Subject info:
    Polyxena was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

    Achilles fell in love and wished to marry her.

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    • One story relates that she helped set up his murder and another tells that he died in battle.
    Achilles ghost demanded Polyxena's sacrifice on his tomb. This sculpture shows the Greeks seizing her.

    Pio Fedi's sculpture:
    This group is modern and was executed by Pio Fedi, of Florence, in 1866.

    The group, with its four large figures, was produced out of a single block of marble, and, until the work was executed, the sculptor was exceedingly poor and comparatively unknown, but this achievement lifted him at once out of poverty and obscurity.

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