Casket

Severo da Ravenna (active ca. 1496-ca. 1543) (follower or school of)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

16th century

Height:

12.4 cm  (4 7/8 in.)

Width:

24.8 cm  (9 3/4 in.)

Depth:

18.4 cm  (7 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

bronze

Additional titles

Description

On the front and rear, a bust of a woman is flanked by centaurs carrying women on their backs. Under the centaurs, instruments rest on the ground: at left, a syrinx with five pipes; at right, a lyre with three strings. On the lid, a syrinx (seven pipes) lies on the ground beside a putto.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Panpipe [4024] (two syrinx: one with with five pipes, one with seven pipes)
Lyre [3501] (with three strings)

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Sculpture in The Frick Collection: Italian (New York: The Frick Collection, 1970) vol. 3.

RIdIM record id

1759