Sunday, October 18, 2020

Narratives in Relief - 1500-1550

Antonio Lombardo
The Forge of Hephaestus
ca. 1508
marble relief
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Hans Daucher
The Judgment of Paris
1522
limestone relief
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ulocrino
Death of Meleager
early 16th century
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giovanni Maria Mosca
Artemis as Protectress of Wild Animals
ca. 1525
bronze plaquette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Italian Artist working in Florence
Marsyas with his pupil Olympus
kneeling in supplication before Apollo

ca. 1525
bronze plaquette
British Museum

Monogrammist IP
The Fall of Man
ca. 1520-30
pearwood relief
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Fall leaves fall die flowers away
Lengthen night and shorten day
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree
I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day

– Emily Brontë (ca. 1840)

attributed to Galeazzo Mondella (called Moderno)
after Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Brutus and Lucretia
before 1528
bronze plaquette
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Pseudo Antonio da Brescia
Jason and the Dragon
ca. 1520
bronze medallion
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

attributed to Valerio Belli
Adoration of the Shepherds
ca. 1526-46
lead plaquette
British Museum

Anonymous German Artist
The Crucifixion
ca. 1530
painted wood relief
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Bernardi
Bull Baiting
ca. 1540
chalcedony cameo
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Benedetto Cervi
Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth
and young St John the Baptist

ca. 1520-40
marble relief
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Loy Hering
The Fall of Man
ca. 1530-35
limestone relief
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Hans Kels the Younger
Phaedra and Hippolytus
1537
oak relief carving on token for board game
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni da Castelbolognese
Fall of Icarus
ca. 1540-45
rock-crystal intaglio
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg