Persephone (sculpture) instance of sculpture
Description
Persephone depicts the Greek goddess Persephone standing on a limestone base in the center of a concrete octagonal pool. The bronze female figure is draped from the waist down. Her left hand is raised and holds a lit torch of bundled twigs. An inscription on the statue base reads on the left statue base:
AD TOUSSAINT
SCULPTEURThe right side of the base is inscribed:PERSEPHONE
IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLO-
GY, SHE, AS THE DAUGHTER
OF ZEUS AND DEMETER, WAS
WORSHIPPED AS THE GODDESS
OF VEGETATION, RETURNING
EACH SPRING FROM THE REALM
OF HADES TO HERALD THE
SEASON OF GROWTH, AND IN
WINTER DISAPPEARING TO PASS
HER TIME, LIKE THE SEED,
UNDER THE EARTH. THE STATUE
WAS EXECUTED IN PARIS ABOUT
1840 BY ARMAND TOUSSAINT,
1806-1862. A GIFT OF JAMES
IRVING HOLCOMB
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