Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival (LH 293) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, commissioned by the Arts Council in 1949 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The sculpture can be viewed as an abstraction of a reclining female human figure, resting on two arms, with a small head. By 1949, Moore was already recognised as Britain's greatest living sculptor, having won the prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948. The Arts Council suggested that a family group would be appropriate for its commission, based on the festival theme of "discovery", but Moore decided
Madonna and Child with St Peter and St Paul painter had collaborated on all the works Perugino painted in his birthplace after 1510. He argued that the "large square forms, especially in the faces" were typical of Ser Giacomo, as were the thick and stocky figures and the red hairs still visible in "Deposition" (Santa Maria dei Servi church, Città della Pieve), in "Madonna in glory with four saints" (Duomo di Città della Pieve) and in the fresco of Antony the Great. These features of works produced in Città delle Pieve by Perugino and his studio are not found in the Monteleone d'Orvieto altarpiece, attributed to Ser Giacomo by