Cyparissus

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Frans I Floris (after)
,
Hendrick Goltzius (publisher)
,
Cornelis Cort (engravers (printmakers))

Date

1565

Period

16th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Cyparissus is turned into a cypress by Apollo as he mourns the death of his favourite deer. The deer hit by an arrow lies behind Cyparissus. From Cyparissus' hands and hair grow branches with leaves. From his toes grow roots.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Frans I Floris , Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata, Cornelis Cort VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 293 x 223 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-MU-1
Description
Subjects mythologies (religious concept) , figures (representations) , animal paintings , landscapes
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass, hoofed animals: deer Iconclass, (story of) Apollo (Phoebus) Iconclass, trees: cypress Iconclass, trees Iconclass, trees Iconclass, Apollo and Cyparissus, usually with his stag Iconclass, homosexual love Iconclass, sodomy, sexual contact between men Iconclass, archer's weapons: arrow Iconclass, archer's weapons: arrow Iconclass, archer's weapons: bow Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MU-1
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11701/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-MU-1
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