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More model information- Name: Achilles and Penthesilea (reconstruction Berger)
- Material: Cast
- Format: Statue Group
- Museum: Courtesy Skulpturhalle, Basel
- Museum inventory number: [?]
- Name of modeler: Davide Angheleddu
- Note: Ernst Berger oversaw the reconstruction for the Skulpturhalle in the period 1964-1972 (see Berger, s.v. “Penthesileia,” in LIMC, vol. VII.1 [Artemis Verlag, Zurich, Munich, 1994] p. 305). This is the first of three variants (no. 65 in Berger, ibid.). Penthesilea’s torso comes from Settebagni, her head from the Antikensammlung Basel. Achilles’ torso comes from the Conservators’ Palace in the Capitoline Museums, the head from Madrid. For more details, see Berger, op. cit., 304.
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