Cleveland Museum of Art
An Assembly of Scholars
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- Date
- c. 1515/1527
- Medium
- engraving
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 108758
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this imaginary, idyllic realm, classical philosophers and scholars gather to teach and learn. The men and women in the foreground examine a book of astrological signs. Behind them, a second group studies an armillary sphere, a celestial globe invented in ancient times that became a symbol of knowledge during the Renaissance. A woodcut version of this scene appeared as an illustration in the fortunetelling book Garden of Thoughts , published in Venice in 1540. In that context, the group of three women in the foreground might be seen as the three fates, and the man with the globe as a personification of astrology.
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- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Provenance
- William Esdaile (1758-1837), London, script (Lugt 2617), verso, lower right, and lower left, in pen and brown ink ; unknown collector, stamp (C[reversed]C, with a '--' across the center where they meet), verso, lower left, in purple ; unknown collector, stamp (rectangle, interior markings illegible), verso, lower left, in red ; purchased from (Kennedy & Co., NY)
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