1592970669000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-156463 1755194558770 1711451001000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-156463 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156463 1c47d2d8-6d29-3636-9a37-5b64a4a39e86 10 reference agent-206918 adlib-agent-206918 774b6904-36ed-3059-a007-d197ac98fb12 Beit, Otto, Sir reference agent-179498 adlib-agent-179498 a66203ba-d987-331b-b04a-3ce6ee72d5c0 Beit, Alfred, Sir person reference agent-179499 adlib-agent-179499 361dfe97-29b4-3237-b5ad-0c604a3993db Diomides reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-125750 adlib-term-125750 2b10ac09-63c3-34ed-87d5-487058c1c344 Limoges painted enamels reference term-117089 adlib-term-117089 70d59fbc-64f7-304e-a336-bf6d65a433a8 Louis C. G. Clarke white, black reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration rectangular and slightly convex copper plaque enamelled in grisaille technique on a brownish- black ground, and gilded. Translucent counter-enamel tinged with green. white, brownish-black in grisaille technique reference term-28662 adlib-term-28662 dd47e505-ccda-3f2b-b576-6104109430e8 enamelling reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding reference term-39588 adlib-term-39588 b17ff981-06b2-30a2-b9a9-b514fe84a191 copper Height cm 4.3 Length cm 7 Plaque Height cm 5.4 Length cm 8.1 Frame reference term-1111 adlib-term-1111 46c949dd-f376-3538-878f-397baee5be09 mythology Applied Arts copper enamelledin grisaille and gilded. Diomides seated and holding the Palladium, a ball on a column, two women and an old man about to sacrifice a bull beside an altar. Rectangular and slightly convex copper plaque enamelled in grisaille on a black ground, and gilded. The translucent counter-enamel is tinged with green. Diomides seated holding the Palladium before a group sacrificing a bull. On the left, Diomedes, nude, sits in profile to right on a drapery which passes over his left arm which is held out in front of him, supporting a gold winged figure of the Palladium. Further to the right is a column with a ball on top, a clad female figure with a quiver, holding her arms up to the right, another female figure, and an old man facing to the left with a bull, partly concealed behind an altar. A gold line runs round the edge. Narrow rectangular frame with on the back, a toothed inner edge which holds the plaque in position, and, at top centre, a ring and a circular loop for suspension. The front has a blue-black ground decorated on the front in gold with a repeating pattern of formal flowerheads and foliage. M.117-1961 1 accession number M.117-1961 156463 priref 156463 Beit Collection old object number 451 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156463 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156463 on back painted in red 451 number circular tie on tag inscribed on one side with name of collection and on the other with sale catalogue reference attached hand-written Beit Coll.’, and, Christies/7oct.1948/lot/24.2’. label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Louis.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 reference agent-149875 adlib-agent-149875 89f52d0e-b912-3dc9-8b2c-61d6aa011b16 Clarke, Louis Colville Gray 1961 1961 1961-04-27 bequeathed Clarke died on 13 December 1960 1550 1550 CE 1550 circa 1550 1570 plaque was previously dated c. 1540-60 but 1540 was too early 1 1570 CE 1570 1570 enameller reference agent-178521 adlib-agent-178521 93516067-5cde-363d-9014-a627ff239225 Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque after sculptor reference agent-9924 adlib-agent-9924 69af27b4-9a25-3a13-a443-54d1762f5280 Belli, Valerio (Valerio Vicentino) In Greek mythology Diomedes, depicted on the left, was one of the greatest heroes of the Trojan War, who, with Odysseus, stole the Palladium, the apotropaic image of Athena, on which the safety of the city of Troy was believed to depend. There are several different accounts of how this was achieved, and of the later fate of the Palladium. In classical literature the Palladium was described as in the form of a warrior with feet together, holding a spear, a shield, and in the other hand a spindle and distaff. But here the enameller has represented it as an elegant winged figure reminiscent of a Victory. The scene was constructed from two unrelated images, both probably taken from Renaissance bronze plaquettes. Godsell (see Documentation) identified the two sources of the design. The group on the right is after a rare bronze plaquette, of a Sacrifice of a Bull by Valerio Belli (e.g. Staatliche Museen, Berlin, A.N.1161, Inv. 1293), and the seated Diomedes is probably after an anonymous plaquette, after an Antique gem of Ulysses standing before Diomedes with a Palladium (e.g. NG Washington A 315.38B), but it might also have been derived from one of several gems, plaquettes, and medals which display only the figure of Diomedes holding the Palladium. The figure was not copied exactly, the enameller altered the position of the legs. He was named the Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque after a plaque in the Victoria and Albert Museum which illustrates the characteristics of his style. All his enamels are small plaques, and those which have been identified are in the monochrome palette described as grisaille. One of the features of his designs, illustrated by the Fitzwilliam's plaque, is that the figures are arranged more or less in a horizontal line, as if they were a sculptural frieze. reference term-110475 adlib-term-110475 223ae6a7-2f91-3314-ae3c-da3233ae47dc 16th Century, Mid reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-15498 adlib-term-15498 61725bf5-360f-3837-8aab-3c90b956a537 literal France France country literal Haute Vienne Haute Vienne region Limoges reference media-136192 adlib-media-136192 348b7a86-61a0-36b4-9a3b-c2b8efc2bc96 jpeg aa/aa20/M_117_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 570 width pixels 760 1742591844385 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_M_117_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 375 width pixels 500 1742591844385 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/M_117_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 570 width pixels 760 1742591844385 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_M_117_1961_20_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 188 width pixels 250 1742591844385 1 image 0 media image reference media-136193 adlib-media-136193 27b1ebcc-e112-3651-a8da-54865ffb056b jpeg aa/aa20/M_117_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 719 1742591866991 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_M_117_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 529 width pixels 500 1742591866991 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/M_117_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 719 1742591866991 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_M_117_1961_20_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 264 width pixels 250 1742591866991 1 image 1 media image reference media-478967994 portfolio portfolio-media-478967994 35a39c65-bc79-3f6e-b982-a1947ca3acd9 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/78/large_M_117_1961_1_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 683 width pixels 1024 1529370564000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/78/mid_M_117_1961_1_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 333 width pixels 500 1529370564000 1 image M.117-1961_1_200712_mfj22_mas.tif 1529370564000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/78/preview_M_117_1961_1_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 167 width pixels 250 1529370564000 1 image 2 media image reference media-1107041808 portfolio portfolio-media-1107041808 106941db-c848-3ba6-a473-e337539d4ccf jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/79/large_M_117_1961_2_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 683 width pixels 1024 1529370565000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/79/mid_M_117_1961_2_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 333 width pixels 500 1529370565000 1 image M.117-1961_2_200712_mfj22_mas.tif 1529370565000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/79/preview_M_117_1961_2_200712_mfj22_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 167 width pixels 250 1529370565000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/505/79/M_117_1961_2_200712_mfj22_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 3328 width pixels 4992 1529370565000 1 image 3 media image reference term-107484 adlib-term-107484 935e21d3-0b7f-3ca6-9987-b79c82e054fd plaque history note Sir Otto Beit KCMG, FRS (1865–1930) before 1918; inherited by Sir Alfred Beit (1903–94); sold Sotheby's, 7 October 1948, Catalogue of the celebrated collections of Hispano- Moresque, Italian majolica, bronzes and works of art, p. 4, second part of lot 24; Copper & Adams, London; Louis C.G. Clarke MA, LL.D. (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. pl. I, IV, and ref. for the Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque in the Salting Bequest in the Victoria and Albert Museum pp. 190-201 reference publication-200002362 adlib-publication-200002362 b0979cdd-e979-3d16-966d-56af49551c01 Two Little Masters of Limoges enamelling reference publication-6650 adlib-publication-6650 67f13fec-5b4b-3028-9d70-07d75a68f8a6 The French Renaissance enamels by the Master KIP and related works by contemporary Limoges enamellers: an analysis of style, iconography and sources Ref. pp. 127-31, nos. 62-6, attributed to the Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque 127-31 reference publication-6021 adlib-publication-6021 6dafbb49-bc39-3d0c-b5ad-634dbead2cf0 The Walters Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Painted Enamels of the Renaissance reference publication-1215 adlib-publication-1215 506a7326-ef44-3fef-bdac-4910f09d91ce Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars Cf. and Ref..pp. 170-1 no. 256, and chapter 4, pp. 243-66. 170-1, 243-66 reference publication-8965 adlib-publication-8965 b3c97c32-bb5d-31b6-bc06-909fdd8511b6 Les pierres gravées représentant le rapt du Palladion, 2 vols. reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance object name reference term-34918 adlib-term-34918 8cf892eb-8947-3474-af13-97a14dfa7958 palladium animal reference term-105242 adlib-term-105242 e261ff51-0cb4-3a3e-b179-ac1531405c2e bull (animal) activity reference term-107510 adlib-term-107510 d87be2be-b65f-3f96-837b-485750955568 sacrificing literal palladium palladium literal bull (animal) bull (animal) literal sacrificing sacrificing

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