Mysterious Sphynx - MRAH
Name
Mysterious Sphynx - MRAH
Address Cinquantenaire Park 10
City/Neighborhood Brussels
Style(s)
Original use
Année 1897
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
Remarkable elements
Address Cinquantenaire Park 10
City/Neighborhood Brussels
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
Original use
- Work of Art
Année 1897
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Van der Stappen Charles
Remarkable elements
- Ironwork
- Sculpture
The Mysterious Sphinx is a work created by the Belgian sculptor Charles Van der Stappen on the occasion of the Colonial Exhibition of Tervuren in 1897, in the midst of the Art Nouveau era.
Mysterious young woman, in ivory and silver, who seems to impose silence...
Contrast between the white of the ivory and the metal, contrast between the serenity of the character and the snake around her wrist, the helmet is decorated with an eagle with outstretched wings and an open beak.
It is a very symbolic work at the end of the century, marked by a certain decadence, a duality between beauty and death, fear and confidence in the future, which was to be very dark...
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