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'Michelangelo's Cupid': The End of a Chapter

11/1956 | 644 | 98

Pages: 403-409+411

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Author:

Pope-Hennessy, John (Pope-Hennessy, John; Hennessy, John Wyndham Pope-; Pope-Hennessy, J.; P.-H., J.)

Subjects

artists:

Michelangelo

artists:

Caccini, Giovanni Battista

artists:

Cioli, Valerio di Simone

collectors and dealers:

Gigli, Ottavio

dates:

1500-1519

museums and institutions:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain

places:

Italy / Florence

sources:

Vasari, Giorgio

subjects:

Italian sculpture / Attributions

subjects:

Roman (ancient) sculpture / Conservation / Restoration (process)

subjects:

Cupid / Narcissus

subjects:

Classical mythology / Iconography

subjects:

Sources / Critical Reception

subjects:

Gigli-Campana Collection

Illustrations

Attributed works:

20. Detail from Peasant Digging, by Valerio Cioli. Marble. (Boboli Gardens, Florence.)

Western art unattributed:

16. Narcissus, Here Identified as a Renaissance Restoration of an Antique Statue. Marble, Height, 110 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum.)

Western art unattributed:

17. Another View of the Statue Reproduced in Fig. 16.

Western art unattributed:

18. Another View of the Statue Reproduced in Figs. 16 and 17.

Western art unattributed:

19. Ilioneus. Hellenistic, Third Century B. C. Marble. (Glyptothek, Munich.)

Western art unattributed:

21. Head of Narcissus Reproduced n Figs. 16, 17, 18.

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