<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=55.1999&output=rss2 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:53:30 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Diana and Callisto]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2823

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Creator

Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldolla)

Title

Diana and Callisto

Date Created

1540s

Spatial Coverage

40 cm x 132.5 cm (15 3/4 in. x 52 3/16 in.)

Identifier

55.1999

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Description

This lovely panel appears to render the passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in which Diana and her nymphs discover that one of their companions, Callisto, has been made pregnant by Jupiter. The exaggerated horizontal format and size indicate that it originally served as part of an interior ensemble or piece of furniture, perhaps a cassone (storage chest) or spalliera (chair back). Especially considering this function, the panel is in excellent condition. Bonifazio was perhaps the first painter in Venice to explore ways of reconciling the school’s traditional insistence upon more naturalistic representation with Central Italian concerns of the moment: complex design, complicated linear rhythm, and self-conscious elegance. In this exploration of a distinctively Venetian Mannerism, his work anticipated and helped prepare the brilliant researches of Tintoretto and Veronese. Attribution changed by former curator of European art to Andrea Meldolla, called Schiavone (4/2011).

Rights Holder

The Suida-Manning Collection

Date

Zadar, Croatia, 1527 - 1563, Venice, Italy

Type

painting

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