Artist: Feuerbach
Size: 39 x 48 cm
Museum: Kupferstichkabinett (Berlin, Germany)
Technique: Drawing
Feuerbach used the same woman as his model for Alcibiades’ two female companions in the second version of his painting entitled Plato’s Banquet (1873, Nationalgalerie, Berlin). She was a Venetian by the name of Lucia Brunacci, who in 1866 had succeeded Anna Risi (‘Nanna’) – a native of Rome who, prior to leaving the artist, had served as his first famous model. While Feuerbach never captured Lucia Brunacci’s austere beauty in a portrait, the model was nevertheless transfigured in some of his most accomplished close-up head studies into an archetype for a new kind of classical beauty, her spirit and inner grandeur helping the artist in his quest to revive a lost tradition through his painting.
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