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Frenzy Sandstone, 295 x 75 cm, attributed to the workshop of Artus Quellinus I, after 1648 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| An insane woman on a tree stump as frenzy personified. She sits naked on a straw-covered platform shaped like a tree trunk, her left leg bent forward and right leg placed diagonally backwards, pulling her hair with both hands while bending her upper body to one side, her tongue protruding from a wide-open mouth. A cloth drapes from her right forearm beneath her legs, covering her lap, and another hangs over the back of the platform, which rests on a square pedestal featuring deep-set panels on each side. From these panels emerge four heads—two male, one bearded with a band and open mouth, the other bald, and two likely female, one with a cloth over her head and the other with parted hair—each with distinct expressions and fingers protruding beneath their chins. Also known as the Madhouse Woman, this statue originally stood in an asylum in Amsterdam. It was sculpted from Bentheim sandstone, with a coverstone of Obernkirchen sandstone |
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