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Amor / Census of Antique Art Known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Sarcophagi / Ivrea (Prov. Turin), Duomo (holding garlands)
Amoretti / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Sarcophagi / Ivrea (Prov. Turin), Duomo (holding garlands)

ORNAMENT

Festoons

Further details

Sarcophagus of a Judge, with a relief showing an amorino (or possibly Amor) holding garlands; now preserved in the back of the atrium in the Duomo at Ivrea; known in the Middle Ages: Traditionally the tomb of S. Basso, the patron saint of Ivrea.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

1st century BC - 2nd century (circa)

Location

Ivrea (Turin), Duomo (SNS Pisa data base 1982, no. 00078)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Consilio et Auctoritate Academiae Regiae Borussiae, I-XVI, Berlin 1863-1936,V, 6788; Gabelmann, Hans: Die Werkstattgruppen der oberitalienischen Sarkophage, Bonn 1972, pp. 18-20, 28, no. 61; Gazzera, G.: Del ponderario e dell antiche lapidi Eporediesi, in: Memor. Acc. Torino, Ser. II, XIV, 1854, p. 24

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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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