Athena1.0203

Athena1.0203_Flaxman

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British Museum
OGCMA s.v. "Athena"

John Flaxman, funerary monument to Admiral Horatio Nelson (w/ Athena-Britannia and two midshipmen), 1807-1818, St Paul's Cathedral, London

The image at right is discussed by David Irwin (1979), John Flaxman 1755-1826: sculptor, illustrator, designer (London, Studio Vista/Christie's), p 158ff.; image derived from the artble.com website.

Full-length marble statue of Vice-Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson, with allegorical figures and lion at the base

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.