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Venanzo Crocetti’s «Lioness with prey» looks more like a game than a fight; it seems more a whim of supremacy than a natural act connected to the need to feed. The lioness holding steady the prey on its front legs and stretching the muzzle is a masterpiece of realism in the attitude of the feline sliding over the victim, leaving the hind legs raised in tension, ready for a new shot. The sly attitude and the muzzle that does not reveal its jaws refer to an unnecessary oppression, inflicted on a being so much weaker that he never had a chance, sacrificed without the need to engage in a fight. The beast is not hungry. It rather seems to enjoy the pride of conquest, leaving the prey intact. The anatomical study of animals is admirably represented by the skeleton that emerges under the skin of the lioness. The representation of the animal world has always been at the center of Crocetti’s anatomical interests: a subsidiary on which to observe the variety of volumetric masses.

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