Art Print of an original drawing by H. Batterson, after the ancient sculpture, Sleeping Hermaphroditus, which was restored by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. All reproductions are printed on archival matte paper, and come unframed.
" In his investigation of the origins, Plato postulated that nature was impartible and perfect before the division of the sexes: the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite, was then described by Ovid in a passage of his Metamorphoses, which is the origin of the popularity of this subject.
The Sleeping Hermaphrodite was an invention of Polykles in the period when families of Athenian artists started to work for Roman patrons, the arbiters of the new equilibrium in the Mediterranean (2nd century BC)"
-Galleria Borghese website, Roman
Art Print of an original drawing by H. Batterson, after the ancient sculpture, Sleeping Hermaphroditus, which was restored by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. All reproductions are printed on archival matte paper, and come unframed.
" In his investigation of the origins, Plato postulated that nature was impartible and perfect before the division of the sexes: the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite, was then described by Ovid in a passage of his Metamorphoses, which is the origin of the popularity of this subject.
The Sleeping Hermaphrodite was an invention of Polykles in the period when families of Athenian artists started to work for Roman patrons, the arbiters of the new equilibrium in the Mediterranean (2nd century BC)"
-Galleria Borghese website, Roman
