{"id":5846,"date":"2024-10-03T09:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/magritte-megalomania-1967-miniature\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:11:12","slug":"magritte-megalomania-1967-miniature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/magritte-megalomania-1967-miniature\/","title":{"rendered":"Magritte, Megalomania (1967) miniature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30541\" src=\"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PA28MAG-HR-WEB-300x225-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the last year of Magritte\u2019s life, the renowned gallery owner Alexandre Iolas asked him whether he had ever considered making sculptures. A few weeks later, Magritte showed Iolas three sketches he had detailed with accurate dimensioning for a sculpture called Megalomania. It was a 3D version of the painting La Folie des Grandeurs from 1962. (PA28MAG &#8211; h. 10 cm.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30556\" src=\"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Venus-Roman-Art-HR-WEB-300x225-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Venus, Roman ca. 100 AD &#8211;\u00a0Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles. The distinctive hairstyle and diadem identify this small head as an image of Venus. (ROM02 &#8211; 9,5 cm.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last year of Magritte\u2019s life, the renowned gallery owner Alexandre Iolas asked him whether he had ever considered making sculptures. A few weeks later, Magritte showed Iolas three sketches he had detailed with accurate dimensioning for a sculpture called Megalomania. It was a 3D version of the painting La Folie des Grandeurs from &#8230; <a title=\"Magritte, Megalomania (1967) miniature\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/magritte-megalomania-1967-miniature\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Magritte, Megalomania (1967) miniature\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5847,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parastonedev.byclarq.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}