Lithograph on paper
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After Biagio di Antonio
Purchased 1982
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paper print lithograph
After Biagio di Antonio
image: 152 × 254 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/paolozzi-after-biagio-di-antonio-p07683" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07683</span></a> <b>After Biagio di Antonio</b> 1980</p>
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<br/>Lithograph 6 × 10 (152 × 254) on paper 13 3/4 × 13 1/8 (334 × 334), printed by Hans Kahler, Munich, not editioned</p>
<p>Not inscribed
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>An image in the same format as this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a> appears in the film ‘The History of Nothing’ which Paolozzi made with Dennis Postle in 1960–2, but there the image seen through the windscreen is the famous Greek <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> of Laocöon, the Trojan priest sentenced, with his sons, to be crushed to death by serpents for warning the Trojans against the wooden horse. In this print the image is a detail from a cassone <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a> with three scenes from the Trojan wars by Biagio di Antonio (in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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animals: mammals architecture Biagio di Antonio, painting car emotions, concepts and ideas fine art and design, named works formal qualities horse military monuments objects photographic society soldier statue transport: land work and occupations