The original work was created by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1806, and is now kept at the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen, the museum dedicated to the great neoclassical artist who for this realization proved to be inspired by Antonio Canova, with whom he found himself in " rival "during his long stay in Italy. Thorvaldsen was a particularly purist neoclassicist and proposed an integral neoclassicism, more severe than that of Canova. The statue portrays Hebe, daughter of Zeus and Hera, according to Greek mythology she was the handmaid of the Olympian gods. We can see the evident reference and quotation of the ancient models of the great masters of ancient classical Greece.
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