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Description: | RH "ANT.LAFRERI SEQVANI. FORMIS"; "IV BONASO IMITANDO PINSIT/CELAVIT" Recto: collector's mark of Earl Spencer (Lugt 1532) CRE BONASONE, Giulio; (Italian; c.1498-c.1580) AFTER POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (Polidoro Caldara); (Italian; 1492-1543) PUB LAFRERY, Antoine; (French; 1512-c.1580) This engraving records a fresco on a house at the Chiavica di Santa Lucia which Vasari mentions in his life of Polidoro, 'sul canto alla chiavica per andare a Corte Savella'. He lists a facciata (now lost?) with Cloelia crossing the Tiber, and a scene of sacrifice. Cloelia was given along with other virgins as hostage to Porsenna King of Etruria. Her escape across the Tiber was remembered in Republican and Imperial times as examplary virtue, and there was a statue to her in the Via Sacra mentioned by Pliny and Dionysos of Halicarnassos. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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