Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry / Sebastiano Conca

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Accession Number
1987/1.159
Title
Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry
Artist Nationality
Italian
Artist Life Dates
1680 - 1764
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Object Creation Date
circa 1725
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Italy (nation)
Lazio (region)
Roma (province)
Rome (inhabited place)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Italy (nation)
Creation Place 3
Lazio (region)
Creation Place 4
Roma (province)
Creation Place 5
Rome (inhabited place)
Style/Group/Movement
Baroque
Dimensions
62.87 cm x 78.74 cm x 5.08 cm (24 3/4 in. x 31 in. x 2 in.)
Century
18th century
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
narrative painting
Physical Description
Two women accompanied by a pair of putti appear seated in the foreground of this painting. On the left sits a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a long white robe and a vivid ocher-colored mantle. She leans on a globe while cradling a large book in her right arm to which she points with her left hand. In her right hand she holds a compass. A putto peeks from beneath her mantle, and a viol is visible beneath the globe. The other woman sits on a cloud. She wears a golden crown and a richly colored blue mantle. She grasps a lyre with her left hand and leans toward the woman seated next to her, gesturing in the direction of the book with her right hand. A second putto stands near her left shoulder holding a gold circlet in his left hand. The background is filled with glimpses of neoclassical architecture, including fluted columns and a facade with a row of Ionic columns supporting an entablature.
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1987/1.159
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"Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry; Sebastiano Conca." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.159/1987_1.159.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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