Candelabrum - Bronze - Goddess Hera

It is a piece that preserves all the noble theatricality of nineteenth-century bronze, yet cut through by the history of its use: a neoclassical candelabrum dedicated to Hera, transformed into an electric lamp in the twentieth century, when many homes sought to adapt their most precious objects to modernity without renouncing their sculptural presence. That double life is evident in the figure: the goddess, upright, with the serene and majestic bearing characteristic of neoclassicism, holds with an outstretched arm the point where the light of the flame originally rose. The gesture is classical, almost templar, with the tunic falling into deep folds that the bronze captures with almost pictorial precision.

The pedestal, heavy with volutes, flowers and vegetal motifs, belongs fully to the taste of the nineteenth century, when Greco-Roman mythology was reinterpreted with exuberant ornamental flair. The figure is not light: it has that material density that only ancient bronze offers, a visual weight that commands respect and makes the object a small sculpture rather than a mere functional element.

The later electrification — visible in the added wiring — speaks of an era in which there was a desire to preserve the beauty of the past by adapting it to new needs. Today, that electrical system shows its age and requests renewal, not only for safety but to restore to the piece the technical dignity that its aesthetic presence already possesses.

Taken together, it is a nineteenth-century neoclassical candelabrum transformed into a lamp without losing its essence: a goddess who continues to hold the light, now electric, with the same solemnity with which she once held the flame. A piece that unites myth, craftsmanship and domestic life for more than a century.

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