Cleveland Museum of Art
Cephalus and Procris in two Niches
René BoyvinLinkedCulture matchlcp-159996d6054d
- Date
- 1538–1540
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- France, 16th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 156179
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Italian Renaissance made an impact outside Italy in the second quarter of the 1500s, when the French king François I invited Italian artists to oversee the decorative program of his chateau at Fontainebleau. Arriving in 1530, Rosso Fiorentino had been deeply influenced by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, which he had seen while working in Rome between 1524 and 1527. Rosso’s designs for two figures in niches (which were engraved by René Boyvin) imitate the complexity and tension of Michelangelo’s nudes. In this story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses , Cephalus has accidentally impaled his wife Procris, who had been spying on him from the bushes.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- purchased from (Hill-Stone, Inc., NY)
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