COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
AIC_.1922.4085
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
Italian; 16th cen.
Creator Name-CRT:
Italian
Title:
After the Antique: Sarcophagus Lid with the Labors of Hercules
Title Type:
preferred
View:
full view
Creation Date:
early 16th cen.
Creation Start Date:
1500
Creation End Date:
1550
Materials and Techniques:
Pen and brown ink on tan laid paper.
Creation Place:
Europe,Italy
Dimensions:
sheet: 144 x 683 mm.
AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number:
1922.4085
Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Inscriptions:
Inscribed recto, in pen and brown ink (l to r), on the horses: "Podargus / Lampon / Xanthus / Deinus;" on the tablet below "Vide in Hygn. fab. / cap.30;" along bottom margin "Diomedes Thracia rex;" across top "Hesperides malus arbor Eurypheus myceneum rex acui mala (...) Hercules Hyppolita Amazonum regina diademata gladius (...);" below tree "Dracus custos ceu (...) / perisi;" below Eurypheus "mons Atlas;" on lower portion of Eurypheus' drapery "stola / graeca;" on Hippolyta's crescent shield "pelta"
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E31615.TIF
Link To Source
After the Antique: Sarcophagus Lid with the Labors of Hercules
