Apollo+with+Cupids

Date: 1880-1882
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1990/1990.106_1a.jpg?itok=rTuRNbB0 width="356" height="160" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/apollo-with-cupids-31992"]] || Title: **Apollo with Cupids**

Artist: **John La Farge (Designer)** Born: New York, New York 1835 Died: Providence, Rhode Island 1910 Artist: **Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Modeler)** Born: Dublin, Ireland 1848

Died: Cornish, New Hampshire 1907

Medium: banded African mahogany, repoussé bronze, colored marbles, mother-of-pearl, abalone shell, and ivory relief Dimensions: 27 3/4 x 63 1/2 in. (70.5 x 161.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of James Maroney and museum purchase

Accession: 1990.106 || Cornelius Vanderbilt II hired John La Farge and Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create the interiors for his Manhattan mansion. The enormous fortunes of the nation's leading industrialists had brought about an American Renaissance of public and private architecture, and Vanderbilt's empire of railroads and steamships bought him a home of staggering opulence. Allegorical panels of jewels, glass, and mother-of-pearl spanned the forty-foot ceiling of the dining room. This relief of Apollo appeared in the ensemble, and was based on Byzantine and Pompeian art reproduced in books owned by La Farge. Gilt bronze relief portraits of the Vanderbilts on the surrounding walls further associated the Gilded Age family with the splendors of antiquity.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens Biography
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John LaFarge Biography Augustus Saint-Gaudens Biography SAAM Collections Page
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