|
Date: |
|
Description: | RH "ANT.LAFRERI / SEQVANI. FORMIS"; "IV BONASO IMITANDO PINSIT/CELAVIT" . Verso: collector's mark of Thomas Thane (Lugt 811): "Apr enahT 1817" 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 an example of female virtue, and there was a statue to her memory in the Via Sacra mentioned by Pliny and Dionysos of Halicarnassos. Bonasone's inscription, with the word "imitando" may imply that the image was created in the spirit of Polidoro's original rather than strictly copying it. Perhaps the original was already lost when he engraved it. | 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: | EARLY ROMAN HISTORY : CLELIA : FEMALE VIRTUE : PORSENNA : MYTHOLOGY : HORSE : ETRUSCAN CAMP : RIVER TIBER : | 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 |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
Cloelia
Artist: Vicentino, Niccolò, printmaker -…
-
-
-
-
-
-
|