The Fury of Athamas | sculpture by Flaxman | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In John Flaxman
  …ambitious academic groups such as The Fury of Athamas (1790–94) and Cephalus and Aurora (1790), but his book illustrations had far greater importance. His Iliad and Odyssey (1793), Aeschylus (1795), and Dante’s Divine Comedy (1802) soon became widely known and, with their clean linear rhythms, contributed much to the spread…
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Neoclassical sculpture

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  In Neoclassical art: Relation to the Baroque and the Rococo
  …terror, as in the marble The Fury of Athamas (1790–94), the violence seems forced and unconvincing. Indeed, there exist in Neoclassical sculpture hardly any convincing images of rage. The concept of antique calmness permeated European art. Canova, with his Hercules and Lichas (1796), produced a large marble of exaggerated expression…
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