Apollo and the muses

Court, Jean de, II (active 1541-1564, died before 1583)

Ghisi, Giorgio (1520-1582) (after a work of)

Item type:

decorative art

Date of creation:

1555-1585

Height:

41.5 cm  (16 5/16 in.)

Width:

54.0 cm  (21 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

enamel on copper

Description

From the museum website: This platter pictures the Greco-Roman god Apollo and the nine Muses playing musical instruments on Mount Helicon. A nymph reclines in the Hippocrene, the spring sacred to poets, which had sprung up from the ground where the hoof of the winged horse, Pegasus, had struck. Court based his composition on a print by Giorgio Ghisi after adrawing by Luca Penni, a follower of Raphael. The enamellers of the late 16th century returned to the use of polychromy. The brilliant effects which they achieved were altogether different from those of the very early enamellers and depended on the extensive use of foils placed in between the layers of enamel.

Iconclass

92B3731
Apollo and the Muses, Apollo Musagetes

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]
Lira da braccio [3181]
Tambourine [2746]
Lute [3394] (only neck is visible)
End-blown trumpet (short)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

RIdIM record id

4741