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Apollo and the Muses Awakened by the Call of Fame

Jacopo Palma il GiovaneLinkedCulture matchlcp-2b63a0d9b67c

Date: 1590s
Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over graphite
Culture: Italy, 16th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 108562

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Here a barely visible Apollo, sleeping in the upper left background, and the nine muses are roused by the allegorical figure of Fame, who flies overhead with a trumpet. This dynamic scene signifies a reawakening of the arts. The loosely arranged clusters of figures and natural forms also suggest a harmonious relationship between humanity and the environment. This drawing, with its heavily subdued details and attention to the overall impact of contrast and design, is characteristic of Venetian draftsmanship in the late 1500s, and was valued by the small circle of Venetian intellectuals for whom Palma produced many similar mythological works.

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Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance: Jonathan Richardson Sr (1667-1745), London (Lugt 2183, lower center, in black ink) | William Mayor (died 1874), London (Lugt 2799, lower right, in black ink). | -1912: John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (Lugt 1507, verso of secondary support, lower right, in black ink); sold to Colnaghi | 1912: With P. & D. Colnaghi & Obach, London (according to departmental cataloguing sheet). | 1926: With Knoedler & Co., New York, (verso of secondary support, stamped in red ink: M. K. & CO. / W. C. No. 1246 [traced in black ink]) | 1926: Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH