Venus and Cupid with Poetry, Drama, Dance, and Music, from the frescoes from the Villa Stati-Mattei

Peruzzi, Baldassare (1481-1536)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1520
Height:
35.2 cm  (13 7/8 in.)
Width:
68.3 cm  (26 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
fresco, transferred to canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 48.17.13]

Description

In the center Venus with Cupid surrounded by two allegorical figures on each side; on the left Poetry holding a scroll, and Drama holding a mask, on the right Dance playing a tambourine, and Music playing fiddle and possibly singing to the music.

Iconclass

92C47
specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Venus; Venus as patroness

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746]
Fiddle [3142]

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RIdIM record id

3811