Mount Olympus (after engraving by Bernard de Montfaucon after Pietro Santi Bartoli)
Benjamin Carter (1719 - 1766)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1761
Materials
Plaster
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 562962
Summary
Plaster sculpture, Mount Olympus (after engraving by Bernard de Montfaucon after Pietro Santi Bartoli) by Benjamin Carter (Datchet 1719 - Datchet 1766). The second of eight bas relief panels by Benjamin Carter c. 1761 - votive relief of Mount Olympus. Subject matter taken from French engraving by Montfaucon published in 1719 (which are themselves taken from the etchings by Pietro Santo Bartoli of the 1600s). Had been painted terracotta but were returned to natural colour when the Pantheon was restored in the 1908s.
Makers and roles
Benjamin Carter (1719 - 1766), sculptor Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), engraver (printmaker) Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700), artist