{"product_id":"columbus-dmcel15","title":"Columbus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil on anodised aluminium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e182 x 232 x 35mm, framed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"\u003eTo the painting’s right is Sicilian sculptor Benedetto Delisi’s 1872 \u003ci\u003eColumbus in Chains\u003c\/i\u003e in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palermo. The sculpture depicts a historical episode from 1500, in which Christopher Columbus was deposed as governor of the Spanish colony of Hispaniola and taken in shackles to Spain. Doubtless conceived as the depiction of an embattled but still indomitable ‘great man’, time has made the sculpture into something else: a somewhat kitsch account of the humbling of a cruel, venal, utterly egocentric and vastly ambitious man in the best Italian Renaissance tradition. Through the sculpture’s reflection in the gallery’s visitor to the left, the painting becomes a play of dualities: male\/female, animate\/inanimate, organic\/inorganic, along with the less material antithesis of hubris and dignified humility. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dominic McElwee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67702289072354,"sku":"DMcEl15","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/1915\/9522\/files\/Columbus.png?v=1792027506","url":"https:\/\/gallery33.co.nz\/products\/columbus-dmcel15","provider":"Gallery 33 New Zealand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}