Latona Giving Birth to Apollo and Diana

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Latona Giving Birth to Apollo and Diana

Diana Scultori; After Giulio RomanoLinkedCulture matchlcp-6def66a7f8a0

Date
after 1575
Medium
Engraving
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
52496

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Diana Mantovana learned to engrave from her father, Mantuan court artist and sculptor Giovanni Battista Scultori. Diana was a rarity among Renaissance printmakers both for her gender and her ambition. She worked in Rome as a reproductive engraver, a highly accomplished skill that involved translating other artists' paintings, sculptures, and drawings into prints. This scene, copied after a design by painter Giulio Romano, depicts Zeus's paramour Latona, who was forced to give birth to their twins on the remote island of Delos in order to escape the detection-and wrath-of Zeus's wife, Hera. Italy, Europe

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The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916

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