The Nosegay by Dale Goffigon

Photographed in February 2022 at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli), this image shows a detail of a marble statue, one of the museum’s celebrated collection of Farnese Marbles. The focus is on the lower portion of the figure’s torso and hand, which delicately grasps a small nosegay or floral bouquet, composed of intricately carved roses and other blossoms.

Dale Goffigon is a photographer celebrated for her evocative images of historic architecture, interiors, and cultivated gardens. Working with a medium-format Hasselblad and collaborating closely with a master printer, she creates museum-quality archival pigment prints. Her recent projects include a series of botanicals realized as cyanotypes and pigment prints. Born on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Goffigon earned a B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and refined her craft at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Maine Photographic Workshop, and the Center for Alternative Processes. Her work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Town & Country, Scala Regia, and The Redstone Book of the Eye.

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Material: Archival pigment print
Frame: White wash wood with UV Glass

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