ECL-Bm.4:61-2012
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.4:61-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Calydonian boar hunt
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Fa 3 no. 5 (formerly Fa 2 no. 5)
Bm 4. 59-69 Palazzo Rospigliosi Bm 4. 61-68 Giardino Rospigliosi contiguo al Palazzo
Bm 4. 59-69 Palazzo Rospigliosi Bm 4. 61-68 Giardino Rospigliosi contiguo al Palazzo
Other number
Fa 3 no. 5
Description
Content (description)
On left figures emerge through an arch to the hunt. A bearded man stands on left with a knife in his belt, two men behind him in the background. A bearded man wearing a skin moves right preceded by Atalanta in boots and a tunic, carrying an axe on her shoulder (?). On right Meleager, backed up by the Dioscuri, faces the boar's attack, armed with a club and with a hound at his side. Remains of a tree trunk can be seen beneath boar's jaw. Far right a youth with a club attacks the boar from behind while a companion sinks to the ground wounded in the leg. An old man moves right but looks back to the boar. A rock flat over the boar partly hides three figures, two of whom brandish rocks.
Content (object)
drawing
Dimensions
height (actual size): 487mm
width (actual size): 772mm
width (actual size): 772mm
Inscription
Rospigliosi no. 5
Inscription description
D no. V written in pencil on front of drawing lower right
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Calderi, Carlo (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• ASR (III ; 2 no. 251 (Palazzo Rospigliosi))
