Erato holding a lyre (fresco from the Villa Stati-Mattei)

Peruzzi, Baldassare (1481-1536)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1520
Height:
89.2 cm  (35 1/8 in.)
Width:
52.1 cm  (20 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
fresco, transferred to canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 48.17.17]

Description

This work belongs to a set of frescoes which are from the vaulted ceiling of a loggia on the Palatine Hill in Rome, and are now part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection (48.17.1-22).

Iconclass

92D426
Erato (one of the Muses); 'Erato' (Ripa)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

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RIdIM record id

3833