Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Titles
Diana and Actaeon
Maker(s)
Workshop:
Bettisi, Leonardo di Antonio
(Perhaps)
Workshop:
Accarisi, Stefano
(Perhaps)
Workshop:
Maestro dei Panneggi
(Perhaps)
Artist:
Tempesta, Antonio
(After)
Entities
Categories
Description
Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome in compendiario style with Diana and Actaeon.
Pale greyish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; three peg marks on underside of the rim. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, Sienese brown, and brown.
Shape approximately 64 with plain rim. Circular with narrow sloping rim, shallow sides and wide flat centre.
Diana and Actaeon. Actaeon stands on the left accompanied by four hounds. Antlers sprout from his head, and his right hand is raised in protest to Diana, who stands in a pool on the right, bathing with five nymphs, one of whom sits on the bank. In the wooded landscape background there are deer. Three narrow orange bands and a yellow band encircle the scene.
Notes
History note: Probably purchased from the London dealer, Van Slochem, in February 1918 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Legal notes
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 44.8 cm
Height: 5.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1580
CE
-
1585
CE
Note
The design was derived from an etching of Diana and Actaeon in a series of Landscapes with Mythological Subjects by Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630). The painter has been named the Maestro dei Panneggi, and it has been suggested that he was Stefano Accarisi, but this is not cerain. See Documentation.
School or Style
Renaissance
compendiario
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange, Sienese brown, and brown)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
: Pale greyish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; three peg marks on underside of the rim. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, Sienese brown, and brown.
References and bibliographic entries
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Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
page(s): pp. 150-1
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): pp. 267-9
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Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica
page(s): 94-5
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Faenza-faïence, "Bianchi" di Faenza
page(s): 64-77
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Documenti, Per Stefano Accarisi
page(s): 61-3
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Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance
page(s): 166-7
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Importanti mobili, ceramiche, argenti ed oggetti d'arte dalle collezioni: Alberto Bruni Tedeschi dal Castello di Castagneto Po, Torino, Contessa Margherita Miani d'Angoris Cantoni, Roma, Giulio Crespi, Milano, Salvatore Russo, Roma, Don Pietro Bruno di Belmonte, Ispica
page(s): 129
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Götter, Helden und Grotesken, Das Goldene Zeitalter der Majolika
page(s): 105
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.178-1991
Primary reference Number: 72607
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
