Terpsichore with two other muses and a putto playing cymbals

Ghisi, Giorgio (1520-1582)

Primaticcio, Francesco (1504-1570) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1560-1569

Height:

29.6 cm  (11 5/8 in.)

Width:

16.9 cm  (6 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving, on paper

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

Terpsichore and two muses wearing long robes are seated and playing musical instruments, while flying overhead, Cupid, a naked, winged cherub, is playing cymbals. Terpsichore is holding a bow in her right hand and a string instrument in her left hand. One muse is holding a shawm with the bell pointing up and the other muse is playing a lute.

Iconclass

92D425
Terpsichore (one of the Muses); 'Terpsicore' (Ripa)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Stringed instruments [3101] (Only the top of the string instrument held by Terpsichore is visible. The body of the instrument is hidden behind her legs.)
Shawm [4258]
Lute [3394]
Cymbals [2451]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Malvasia, Carlo Cesare. Life of Marcantonio Raimondi and critical catalogue of prints by or after bolognese masters. Critical edition by Lorenzo Pericolo; introduction, translation, and notes by Naoko Takahatake; with the critical edition of Roger de Piles's annotations to Malvasia's Felsina Pittrice by Carlo Alberto Girotto; with the support of Mattia Biffis and Elizabeth Cropper. Felsina pittrice: lives of the Bolognese painters, 2.1-2.2 (Turnhout: Brepols; Washington, DC: Board of trustees, National Gallery of Art, 2012) v. 1, 157; v. 2, no. 25. ISBN 9781909400665.

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Mariette, Pierre-Jean. "Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave des Ghisi", Nouvelles de l'estampe 9 (1968) 367–85, 375, no. 41–43.

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D'Arco, Carlo. Di cinque valenti incisori Mantovani del secolo XVI e delle stampe da loro operate (Mantova: Elmucci, 1840) 104, no. 22.

Zanetti, Alexandre and Leopoldo Cicognara. Le premier siècle de la calcographie, ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes (Venice: J. Antonelli, 1837) 499, no. 1357.

Malaspina, Luigi. Catalogo di una raccolta di stampe antiche (Milan: Bernardoni, 1824) v. 2, 165.

RIdIM record id

5175