Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Artist
Giuseppe Ceracchi
(Italian, 1751 - 1802)
Date1794
MediumMarble
Dimensions25 x 12 x 14 in. (63.5 x 30.5 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.23
Accession number
2005.23
On View
On viewLabel TextIn this bust, Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi depicted founding father Alexander Hamilton as a Roman statesman with a classical profile and strong nose. While Hamilton has garnered recent attention as the star of an award-winning Broadway musical, in the late eighteenth century, his guise as a Roman statesman was a costume of a different sort. The white marble neoclassical sculpture drew connections between the new American republic, the ancient democracies of Greece, and the republican values of Rome.
En este busto, el escultor italiano Giuseppe Ceracchi presenta a uno de los padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos como un senador romano, con perfil clásico e imponente nariz. Mientras Hamilton ha recibido mucha atención recientemente como la estrella de un galardonado musical de Broadway, a finales del siglo XVIII, su disfraz de senador romano le otorgaba una apariencia distinta. La escultura neoclásica en mármol blanco establece una relación entre la nueva república norteamericana, la antigua democracia de Grecia, y los valores republicanos de Roma.
InscribedDE FACIE PHILADELPHIAE/EX ECTIPO FLORENCIAE/FACIEBAT JOS. CERACCHI/CIDDCCLXXXXIV
