Proposition d’une nouvelle identification pour la pseudo “Rebecca et Eliezer” du Primatice
2022; Comité national de l'estampe; Issue: 268 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4000/estampe.3229
ISSN2680-4999
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
ResumoA composition by Primaticcio known in two etchings, by Léon Davent and the Master I♀V, was identified two centuries ago as Rebecca and Eliezer, an identification accepted by most cataloguers since then. But this identification is seriously problematic: crucially, the composition lacks the camels that are essential to that subject. It is here suggested that the etchings record a drawing or drawings by Primaticcio for the composition that was painted in the central field of the vault of the Grotto of the Pines at Fontainebleau, and that the subject is Venus offering drink to Cupid. The vault, known already to depict Juno and Minerva, would thus show the three goddesses of the Judgment of Paris. Important influence of Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice, 1499) is posited, as well as of the Imagines by Philostratus the Elder.
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