pyranean

Updated: May 3, 2025

The flesh is represented by warm-toned marble, the hair is brownish-red, the garment is of alabaster, yellowish-red with violet tones, and the figure stands on a pedestal of Pyranean marble. In color effect, however, the Beethoven is the most striking.

Elisabeth Luther Cary - Artists Past and Present: Random Studies

In Les Maîtres Contemporains, M. Paul Mongré thus describes it: "The pedestal, half rock, half cloud, which supports the throne of the Olympian master, is of Pyranean marble of a dark violet-brown; the eagle is of black marble, veined with white, its eyes are of amber.

Elisabeth Luther Cary - Artists Past and Present: Random Studies