1592999663000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-75499 1747246354652 1714469793000 1747245848890 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-75499 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75499 b9961a42-6b21-3a89-840f-34ab649deb53 11 person reference agent-160404 adlib-agent-160404 28ac1b0a-7803-3f10-a14a-7c9b61a3f950 Cocles, Horatius person reference agent-160403 adlib-agent-160403 cc746505-8309-3886-80b1-28da3bfed339 Etruscans reference term-108348 adlib-term-108348 667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02ff tin-glazed earthenware reference term-42865 adlib-term-42865 92be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9 maiolica metallic oxides producing blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white reference term-108364 adlib-term-108364 115b8729-a560-35c1-b654-4b9d2fc5f68b high-temperature colours Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-109546 adlib-term-109546 b51de94f-8382-3b95-905a-0ff3f4165fc8 Roman history Applied Arts Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with Horatius Cocles holding the Bridge against the Etruscans. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse is pale beige and has crawled near the lower edge. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Shape 64, with three faint concentric grooves under the edge. Circular with a narrow rim and wide flat centre; the base uneven. Horatius Cocles holding the Bridge against the Etruscans. On the right, three men are breaking down the bridge with picks. In the middle, Horatius, mounted on a rearing charger, brandishes his sword at a group of ten attackers. Below the bridge, there is another mounted Roman, whose horse's rump has been pierced by an arrow fired by a bowman on the left. Both he and Horatius bear shields charged with the arms per fess argent and azure the base of a column proper. In the foreground there are rocks, a broken-down fence and the river Tiber; in the background to left, the tents of the Etruscan camp, and to right, Rome and distant mountains. The rim is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle, in dark blue: '.M.D.XXXVIII./Vedi su'l pontei trepido, e, feroce/Oratio sol cotra Thoscana tutta/Che ne ferro, e, ne fuoco a vertu nuoce./.Xato.' (Behold on the bridge the intrepid, and, fierce Horatius alone against all the Etruscans Who neither with iron nor fire harm his valour. .Xanto.) A narrow black band and a wider yellow band encircle the edge. no catalogue reference exhibition-1605 adlib-exhibition-1605 04d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1b Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum C.55-1927 1 accession number C.55-1927 75499 priref 75499 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75499 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75499 circular museum label inscribed in ink M 76 label circular inscribed in ink 244/az label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 reference agent-157197 adlib-agent-157197 ab234587-3b80-398a-9715-ce74f88dbb64 Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon. 1927 1927 1927 bequeathed 1538 CE 1538 dated 1538 painter reference agent-5335 adlib-agent-5335 abbd62ad-dff5-32f6-8881-6cc828e21322 Avelli, Francesco Xanto after printmaker reference agent-35821 adlib-agent-35821 7864b6fe-8b62-333d-b6ff-dcc5decb8942 Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) after printmaker reference agent-112340 adlib-agent-112340 a9104dd3-daf9-32ba-b083-c074b588b652 Raimondi, Marcantonio None of these sources indicate that Horatius fought on horseback, so the representation on the dish is artistic license on Xanto's part. Horatio is also shown on horseback on a dish inscribed with the same line from Petrarch, and dated 1541, in the Palazzo di Venezia, Rome. As was his usual habit, Xanto created the scene partly by drawing the figures from several different printed sources: the 'Abduction of Helen', engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael; 'I Modi' engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi; the' Battle of the Romans and Carthaginians' by Marco Dente (?) after Raphael or Giulio Romano; the 'Battle with a Cutlass' by Marco Dente (?) 'and, possibly, the 'Slaying of Cerberus' by G.G. Caraglio after Rosso Fiorentino, and 'St George and the Dragon' by Master I.B. with Bird. The city in the background features anachronistically two obelisks, which Xanto incorporated into other scenes to indicate a location in Rome or elsewhere in the Ancient World. For details of the prints, see the Documentation, Poole, 1995. The story of Horatius defending the bridge against the Etruscans is related by the Roman historians, Livy in Ab urbe condita, II, X, and by Valerius Maximus, in Facta et dicta memorabilia, III, ii, 1, which was certainly known to Xanto, probably in the translation by Agostino de Taie da Portese, Valerio Masimo volgare nuovamente correcto, Venice, 1509, or a later edition, such as by G. Gregori, Venice, 1526. However, the inscription on the back of the dish was not drawn from either of these classical sources, but partly from Petrarch's Trionfo della fama, I, 41-2. Xanto used an edition with commentary by Ilicino, who provided a very brief description of Horatius' bravery. In that text, 'Oratio sol contra Thoscana tutta/ Che ne foco, ne ferro a vertu noce' follows 'Mutio che la sua dextra errante coce' versions of which appear on dishes decorated by Xanto with Mucius Scaevola scorching his right hand in front of Lars Porsenna, such as the Fitzwilliam's dish C.12-1953. reference term-106602 adlib-term-106602 bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e 16th Century reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-110708 adlib-term-110708 ef038505-1555-3c61-b6e2-cadcedf6c42a literal Italy Italy country Urbino buff reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware reference term-39575 adlib-term-39575 cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4ab tin-glaze Diameter cm 46 Height cm 4.7 reference media-45374 adlib-media-45374 d41c703d-fdb5-3489-9241-43a1b14892b8 jpeg aa/aa1/C_55_1927_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583415722 1 image jpeg 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Leverton Harris. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. pp. 320-3, ill. p. 322, bottom left p. 322 reference publication-200000978 adlib-publication-200000978 81c5d92f-f206-326e-8ca3-2a3610a2d94d Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris, II Publ. p. 9 & pl. XIII C & pl. XVI, top shelf on right. p. 9 reference publication-200000991 adlib-publication-200000991 8abfbba2-051f-3c8e-8476-30efa10336a6 Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - III Publ. p. 146 D p. 146 reference publication-3047 adlib-publication-3047 9050aba6-9b8c-3277-8b3e-b218b9ee26ea Maioliche italiane del Rinascimento Publ. catalogue by Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré Dal Poggetto et al. of an exhibition held 19 April - 25 May at Sesto Fiorentino, and 27 July - 31 August at the Museo delle Ceramiche, Castelli, p. 125 p. 125 reference publication-3239 adlib-publication-3239 af44b66f-9ba1-3bde-9711-cc3d7a5b3246 Antiche maioliche popolari di Castelli Publ. pp. 348-9, no. 396; for possible printed sources for the figures, see p. 342, fig. 32, p. 328, fig. 24 and p. 344, fig. 33 pp. 348-9 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ref. The author discusses several Roman and sixteenth-century battle scenes represented on maiolica 42-50 reference publication-8863 adlib-publication-8863 f35d5a59-2ad2-3045-a9b6-23a292483eca Pots, Prints and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century Cf. pp. 56-7, lot 8, a large dish, 46 cm in diameter, with a different version of the same subject, showing Horatio on horseback, and given a date of c. 1555 by the cataloguer. 56-57 reference publication-8903 adlib-publication-8903 91451c3e-4e14-3fbe-97c5-6d227ba39ad5 Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs- d’oeuvre reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance concept reference term-132392 adlib-term-132392 cb307a28-3994-388f-812f-27d1bfd9f1ec valour object name reference term-42208 adlib-term-42208 56bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93 sword object name reference term-87034 adlib-term-87034 2c5e4251-c521-335c-ba82-08292c43da13 arrow object name reference term-107516 adlib-term-107516 146a0bfc-a677-3f01-8f8a-18d01ec5f2f2 shield object name reference term-60647 adlib-term-60647 04b30013-2292-36ec-a938-1109132ca164 tent animal reference term-78765 adlib-term-78765 46e462e7-1543-3aaa-90c1-2562102b738f horse (animal) place type reference term-106376 adlib-term-106376 8e94a929-86ca-3f59-91cf-9782d32e1db3 bridge place type reference term-106688 adlib-term-106688 726e0d7d-a510-37d4-a2b9-cc5b8e9a69a1 camp place type reference term-58400 adlib-term-58400 d1dd2737-2f36-38e3-8edc-5e486d6d8ac5 mountains place type reference term-58034 adlib-term-58034 2aea626f-1d1c-37e2-af92-c85d647d4ee9 river place name reference term-106366 adlib-term-106366 b3c6d1ca-fe9f-38c0-bdd4-f8d83ac87a8f Rome named event reference term-113275 adlib-term-113275 74293a67-c0f2-37e2-8b84-4cc707c3297b Horatius defending the Bridge literal valour valour literal sword sword literal arrow arrow literal shield shield literal tent tent literal horse (animal) horse (animal) literal bridge bridge literal camp camp literal mountains mountains literal river river literal Rome Rome literal Horatius defending the Bridge Horatius defending the Bridge

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dish buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse is pale beige and has crawled near the lower edge. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing object OBJECT