Citation
"Door Knocker with Neptune and Sea Horses (Alessandro Vittoria) , 1953.41,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299829.
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Glossy, sculpted black bronze door knocker in the form of a man and two horses standing on a large shell. In the middle is a nude, muscular man with curly hair and a curly beard. He raises an upside-down trident in his right hand. With his left he touches the tail of an animal that has the head and front legs of a horse, but a long, mermaid-like tail. Another mer-horse creature is on the other side of the man. Their tails are symmetrically curled behind the man. He stands on their crossed front legs.