Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry / Sebastiano Conca
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.159
- Title
- Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry
- Artist
- Sebastiano Conca
- 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
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- 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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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1257 x 965
- File Size
- 72 KB
- Record
- 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 June 08, 2024.