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Description: | 140.5 x 158.5 Signed and dated on cinerarium: "E. Quellinus inv. et fecit anno 1652". CRE QUELLINUS, Erasmus; (Flemish; 1607-1678) This is an important signed and dated work by Quellinus, who was a pupil, assistant of Rubens, and after the master's death one of the leading painters in Antwerp. The Roman writer Aulus Gellius, narrates that in 351 B. C. the widowed Artemisia removed the ashes of her brother and husband, Mausolus, from his tomb, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor (visible behind), mixed the ashes into a potion, and drank it. Artemisia became a successful ruler and used the act of consuming her husband's ashes to emphasise her claim to the throne. Quellinus's figures have elegant qualities that differentiate them from Rubens's. Two devices in the picture show his allegiance to the master. The artist chose to place his signature on the marble cinerarium in the foreground which has been opened in order to remove the ashes. The object in the painting may have been based on a Roman example in Rubens's collection, possibly acquired by Quellinus after Rubens's death. Rubens owned four of this type, one of which is preserved in the Leiden Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, (Inv. no. Pb 34a-b). The architecture in the background, which stands for the tomb of Mausolus, resembles the archway in the gardens of Rubens's house. Quellinus has followed Rubens's practice in introducing the architecture as a simplified backdrop. | 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 | Subjects: | MAUSOLEUM : 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD : ANCIENT HISTORY : HALICARNASSUS : FEMINIST HEROINE : CINERARIUM : NIRP2005 : RUBENS PUPIL : | 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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