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Twee krankzinnigen
Also titled Two Madmen
Pieter Xaveri (Antwerp, ca. –1673)
1673
- Medium
- terracotta (clay material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 50 cm x width 34 cm x depth 18 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Between 1670 and 1673, the year of his death, the Antwerp sculptor Pieter Xaveri lived in Leiden, where he made small sculptures modelled in terracotta. Many of them are anecdotal. The meaning of this unusual depiction of two fettered men in a frenzy is unknown.
