Cleveland Museum of Art
Allegory
- Date
- possibly early 1500s
- Medium
- gilt bronze
- Culture
- possibly Northern Italy, 16th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 143904
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This object might have graced a man’s hat or the handle of a sword. The allegory has yet to be deciphered, but the heroic male nude chained in flames probably addresses masculine virtues of strength or stoicism.
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- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Provenance
- Dr. Leo Mildenberg (Zurich, Switzerland), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. | Dr. Jacob Hirsch (New York, New York)
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