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With her hand raised to her ear, and guided by a staff around which her windblown dress dramatically swirls, Nydia makes her way through the debris-strewn city, represented by the broken Corinthian capital at her feet. In modeling the sculpture, Rogers drew upon Neoclassical tendencies in his choice of medium and subject, but enlivened his work with highly animated baroque drapery and the girl’s dynamic pose and flowing hair. The artist, based in Rome, was probably influenced in the particulars of <I>Nydia</I>’s realization by the many Classical and later sculptures on view in public and private collections there. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1855,"sortnumber":"1945  274y","published_date":"2026-02-11 09:42:28.509104","objectid":22079,"dimensions":"135 × 73.5 × 92.5 cm (53 1/8 × 28 15/16 × 36 7/16 in.)","on_view":true}