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Diomides and a group Sacrificing a Bull
Maker:
Master of the Mars and Venus Plaque
Sculptor:
Belli, Valerio (Valerio Vicentino)
(After)
Copper enamelled en 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 en 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.
History note: Otto Beit (1865-1930) before 1918; inherited by Sir Alfred Beit; 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; L.C.G. Clarke, Leckhampton, Cambridge.
Louis.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
16th Century, Mid
Renaissance
Circa
1540
CE
-
1560
CE
In Greek mythology Diomedes was a prominent hero in the Trojan War. With Odysseus he stole from Troy the Palladium; the sacred image of Pallas, on which the safety of the city of was believed to depend. Godsell (see Documentation) identified the two sources of the design. The group on the right is after a plaquette, of a Sacrifice of a Bull by Valerio Belli (Staatliche Museen, Berlin, A.N.1161, Inv. 1293), and the seated Diomedes is after an anonymous plaquette, after an Antique gem Ulysses standing before Diomedes with a Palladium (NG Washington A 315.38B).
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( white, black)
gold
Plaque
composed of
copper
Height 4.3 cm
Length 7 cm
Frame
Height 5.4 cm
Length 8.1 cm
Inscription present: circular tag inscribed on one side and on the other
Accession number: M.117-1961
Primary reference Number: 156463
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: M.24-1972
Accession Number: C.110-1961
Accession Number: GR.6.1932
Accession Number: M.3-1968
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