Author: OLAUSSON, Magnus & TEBELIUS MUREN, Elisabet
Title: Sergel Och Hans Romerska Krets, Europeiska Terrakottor 1760-1814
Description: National Museum of Stockholm, 2004. Hardbound. Pictorial hardcover. 239 pp. with over 200 color illustrations. Text is in Swedish. Terrific color plates. 134 works are featured in this wide-ranging exhibition. During his time in Rome, Johan Tobias Sergel found a circle of like-minded, contemporaneous peers. They were younger artists from different countries who had come to Italy to study antiquity and "nature", that is, the surrounding, visible reality. The alternating study of antiquity and nature was the basis for Sergel's further artistic development. This was not original in itself, but the hard self-study, the association with his peers and the strong artistic will to express himself led to a personal, idiosyncratic and immediate idiom. Through Sergel's eyes and hands, antiquity gained meaning anew, depicted in a sensually present form without any real parallel in contemporary times. Sergel and his Roman circle are the theme of this exhibition, which is the result of a collaboration with the Musee du Louvre in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Both of these museums have shown the exhibition in a different version in 2003 and 2004, with a larger number of objects and with an emphasis on the era and the material terracotta rather than individual artists. In Stockholm, the focus has been on Sergel, with the aim of highlighting his central role on the contemporary European art scene. (translated, please allow for context errors). VG+ .

Keywords: European Art ; Sergel, Johan Tobias ; ;


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