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Description: | R "Diana Mantovana Incidebat Romae, 1581" CRE SCULTORI, Diana (Ghisi); (Italian; c.1536-c.1590) PUB DUCHETTI, Claudio; (Italian; ac. c.1577- c.1581) NFA assisted purchase. A small part of Scultori's output was dedicated to engravings after famous classical sculptures. This represents a remarkable sculpture known as the Farnese Bull and now in the Museo Nazionale in Naples. It represents Amphion and Zethos binding Dirce to an enraged bull by her hair in revenge for her treatment of their mother Antiope. The original was made by two sculptors called Apollonios and Tauriskos, and according to Pliny's Natural History, the sculpture was in the collection of one of the outstanding 1st century art collectors, Gaius Assinius Pollio (76 B.C. - A.D. 5), having been brought to Rome from Rhodes. The sculpture - believed by the finders to be the original described by Pliny, but now thought to be a copy of the 2nd Century A.D. - was found in 1545 during excavations of the Baths of Caracalla, and taken to the Palazzo Farnese to join one of the most important 16th century collections of antiquities. | 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: | ANCIENT SCULPTURE : MYTHOLOGY : FARNESE PALACE : PALAZZO FARNESE : SCULPTURE COLLECTION : HELLENISTIC ART : ROME : HISTORICAL PRINT : DIRCE : AMPHION : ZETHYS : | 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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