The Hesperides Bringing the First Oranges to Italy

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Francesco Albani (after)
,
Cornelis II Bloemaert (engravers (printmakers))

Date

ca. 1640

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
This work belongs to a series of five engravings. This engraving was made after a drawing by Francesco Albani. The same engraving appears in Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Hesperides, Rome 1646. Cornelis Bloemaert made five engravings for this book after drawings by Albani, Poussin, Domenichino, Sacchi and Romanelli. Other engravers such as Claude Mellan also collaborated on this project. Ferrari's book…
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This work belongs to a series of five engravings. This engraving was made after a drawing by Francesco Albani. The same engraving appears in Giovanni Battista Ferrari, Hesperides, Rome 1646. Cornelis Bloemaert made five engravings for this book after drawings by Albani, Poussin, Domenichino, Sacchi and Romanelli. Other engravers such as Claude Mellan also collaborated on this project. Ferrari's book is a botanical treatise on citrus species, supplemented by mythological tales, some of which are by the author himself.
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More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Francesco Albani VIAF RKD Wikidata, Cornelis II Bloemaert
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 300 x 207 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2015-BL
Description
Subjects mythologies (religious concept) , figures (representations) , allegory (artistic device) AAT
Tags the Hesperides, guardians of the tree with golden apples Iconclass, fruit (ORANGE) Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, sitting figure Iconclass, sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass, the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) Iconclass, container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Iconclass, beasts of prey, predatory animals (SHE-WOLF) Iconclass, (story of) Romulus and Remus Iconclass, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti' Iconclass, 'Cornucopia', Horn of Plenty Iconclass, lyre, cithara, psaltery Iconclass, geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (ITALY) Iconclass, gods ~ classical mythology Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-BL
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8670/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-BL
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