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GODS AND MYTHS

Amazons / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Sarcophagi / Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inv. SK 1878
Amazons / Battle of Amazons (Amazonomachia) / Sarcophagi and Renaissance copies thereafter

Further details

Artist or creator

Italian

Date

16th century (early)

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 2005,0926.139)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Cassiano dal Pozzo. Franks Drawings, vol. 1 (British Museum). Folio: 139.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Ruth Rubinstein, A drawing of a Bacchic sarcophagus in the British Museum and folios from a Renaissance sketchbook, in Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum, II (Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum and the Warburg Institute, London, 14-15 December 1989), Quaderni puteani 2, Milan 1992, pp. 66-78

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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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