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GODS AND MYTHS

Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Unknown or lost prototypes / Marble relief, so-called 'Letto di Policleto' (formerly Florence, collection Lorenzo Ghiberti)

Further details

replica after the lost 'Letto di Policlete' in Ghiberti's collection

Artist or creator

Italian

Date

16th century

Location

London, K. T. Hewett (173 New Bond Street) (sold to them in 1966, probably by Herbert Bier; 1993-1998 at Christie's, London, at some point supposedly in a private collection in Boston)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Denkwürdigkeiten, Berlin 1912, p. 172f; Christian Hülsen, Il letto di Policleto, Jahreshefte des Oesterreichischen Archäologischen Institutes 18 (1915), p. 130ff; Ernst Gombrich, The Style all'Antica, fig. 19

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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