SALAMMBO: SACRED PROSTITUTION - & WHY YOU SHOULD PAY YOUR MERCENARIES
SALAMMBO: SACRED PROSTITUTION - &WHY YOU SHOULD PAY YOUR MERCENARIES STATUE OF THE MONTH, MAY 2020 ‘For this woman, men would commit every sin … every sacrilege!’ (slogan on advertising poster for The Loves of Salammbo , 1960) The woman in question, Salammbo, forms the subject of a dramatic and erotic statue in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight. William Hesketh Lever, soap manufacturer and art collector, was a keen collector of contemporary sculpture; he purchased Salaambo from the artist, the French sculptor Maurice Ferrary, at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900 (the event for which the Eiffel Tower was constructed). It has remained in the Lever collection ever since, forming the centrepiece of a purpose-built circular sculpture hall. Maurice Ferrary, Leda & The Swan , Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Ferrary used different materials in various colours to create a pol