Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Czech Republic / Prague / Palais Thun (Mala Strana) / Hall (destroyed)

GODS AND MYTHS

Vulcan / Various activities / Riding in a chariot

LITERATURE

Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book II: Aeneas recounts the sack of Troy / vv. 721-741: Aeneas fleeing Troy / With Anchises and Ascanius / With the Fall of Troy in the background

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

The Elements / Cycles / Cycles of four / As separate allegories or personifications / Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle (Johann Michael Rottmayr, perhaps bozzetti for lost murals in the Palais Thun, Prague, 1696)
The Elements / Individual / Fire

Further details

Perhaps bozzetto for a lost cycle of images of the Elements with scenes from the Iliad and Odyssee in the hall of the Palais Thun, Prague, Mala Strana

Artist or creator

Rottmayr, Johann Michael (1656-1730)

Date

1696 (circa)

Location

Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle (inv. 2452)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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