Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos

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Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos

Giovanni Maria MoscaLinkedCulture matchlcp-36d886e600d8

Date
c. 1510–1515
Medium
marble
Culture
Italy, 16th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
147425

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A snake bit the Greek warrior Philoctetes en route to the Trojan War. The stench of the infected wound led the ship’s crew to abandon him on the island of Lemnos, where he fans the agonizing injury with a bird’s wing. The warrior’s noble suffering in the face of tremendous pain would have been a classical model of stoic composure, highly valued in Renaissance court culture.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
Possibly Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864 (London, England), by gift to his brother, Henry Savage Landor | Possibly Henry Savage Landor | John Pope-Hennessy, 1913-1994 (New York, New York), sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel. | Rosenberg and Stiebel (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.

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