Cleveland Museum of Art
Sleeping Endymion
Agostino CornacchiniLinkedCulture matchlcp-794a274515c3
- Date
- 1716
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- Italy, 18th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 122194
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Cornacchini moved away from the dramatic movement and light effects characteristic of baroque sculpture toward a calmer, gentler, more graceful style favored by 18th-century taste. This sculpture depicts Endymion, a beautiful young shepherd from Greek mythology. His beauty so entranced Selene, the personification of the moon, that she asked Zeus to grant Endymion immortality. Zeus did so, but only after placing Endymion in an eternal sleep.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
- Provenance
- Private collection (Rome, Italy), ca. 1920-25 (according to a letter from Roberto Longhi, November 13, 1964); | Grace Rainey Rogers, 1867-1943 (New York, New York), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
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