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Sol (the Sun)
Also titled Sol (de Zon)
Johan Gregor van der Schardt (Nijmegen, 1530–ca.)
c. 1570 - c. 1581
- Medium
- bronze (metal)
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- height 45.7 cm x width 21 cm x depth 13 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The sun is portrayed in the guise of a young man with an idealized muscular body, and a mask encircled by rays of light before his face. He is accompanied by a lion, the astrological symbol of the sun. This statuette may have been part of a spectacular table fountain, although it is questionable whether this lavish ornament was ever completed.
