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ECL-Bm.1:13-2012

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Object number

ECL-Bm.1:13-2012

Object type

Identification

Title

Sarcophagus: marine thiasos

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Content (description)

In centre portrait of dead man in shell held below by small figures rising from waves between a sea-ram and a sea-boar and at each side by sea-centaurs, on whose backs ride nymphs with billowing drapery. On left and right a nymph with drapery arching over her back, attended by a putto, floats with her arm across the neck of the sea-bull. From the waves beneath each rises a sea-monster.

Content (object)

drawing

Dimensions

height (actual size): 495mm
width (actual size): 767mm

Inscription

Villa Borghese. Facciata a ponente. Quattro nereidi a sedere, con il ritratto del defonto

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Person

Calderi, Carlo (Artist)

Date

1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Montelatici (141)
• Louvre (Ma 396)
• Charbonneaux (242)
• ASR (V no. 72)
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