{"product_id":"tacita-dean-lord-byron-died","title":"Tacita Dean – Lord Byron Died","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLord Byron Died\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) is a set of six black-and-white photographs on baryta paper by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/tacita-dean\"\u003eTacita Dean\u003c\/a\u003e, published for the 50th Venice Biennale in an edition of 33. The set of prints comes with a signed and numbered certificate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe six photographic prints show close-ups of marble in the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion in Greece, covered with names, initials and dates scratched in by visitors. Some letters are Greek and some Latin, and years between the 1850s and the 1890s can be read, among them 1857, 1861, 1892, 1897 and 1898. One inscription includes the name of a ship, S.S. Sparta. The lettering is cut in the formal copperplate style of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/british-artists\"\u003eBritish artist\u003c\/a\u003e went to Sounion to find the signature that Lord Byron is said to have carved into one of the columns. She could not find it and photographed the other names instead. In her words, the dates carved by later travellers now read as end dates for an era of Romantic wanderings and literary brilliance. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLord Byron Died places \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/contemporary-photography\"\u003econtemporary photography\u003c\/a\u003e at the meeting point of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/conceptual-art\"\u003econceptual art\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/text-based-art\"\u003etext-based art\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tacita Dean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56457399501142,"sku":null,"price":2800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/3035\/8358\/files\/Dean-Tacita_Lord-Byron.webp?v=1793700278","url":"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/products\/tacita-dean-lord-byron-died","provider":"MLTPL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}