Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mars Bound by Cupid
Master of 1515LinkedCulture matchlcp-57429e841d8f
- Date
- c. 1515–20
- Medium
- Drypoint
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 7466
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
This idiosyncratic artist gets his name from the one engraving he dated. Despite his anonymity, the Master of the Year 1515 had a deep well of personality. Eschewing the accepted religious and moralizing themes of the day, he concentrated on wit and whimsy. In Mars Bound by Cupid , a mock-serious Cupid incapacitates the god of war, who is seated ignominiously on a heap of his own armor. The master is known for using drypoint more often than any other sixteenth-century artist, a technique that accounts for the soft, lush ink pooling in the shadows in this remarkably fresh print. Italy, Europe
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Herschel V. Jones
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