Life-size sculpture of Cain, completed in 1844 by Italian sculptor Giovanni Dupré (1817-1882). The sculpture is part of the gallery of marble sculptures above the main staircase in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the Bible, Cain and Abel were the children of Adam and Eve. According to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, Cain murdered his brother Abel. Dupré’s first work of importance was the marble “Abel” (1842), the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia commissioned him to execute a statue of “Cain” (1844).
Life-size sculpture of Cain, completed in 1844 by Italian sculptor Giovanni Dupré (1817-1882). The sculpture is part of the gallery of marble sculptures above the main staircase in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the Bible, Cain and Abel were the children of Adam and Eve. According to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, Cain murdered his brother Abel. Dupré’s first work of importance was the marble “Abel” (1842), the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia commissioned him to execute a statue of “Cain” (1844). The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is the second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Empress Catherine the Great.
Size: 3144px × 5000px
Location: State Hermitage, Russia, 190000, St Petersburg, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya (Embankment), 34
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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