Bonasone: Neptune calming the Tempest

    Comments

    Attributed to Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531–after 1576) (in Bartsch, but questioned)

    Attributed to Girolamo Fagiuoli (Italian, active Bologna, by 1539, died 1574 Bologna) by S. Boorsch

    After Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome) (Metropolitan Museum)

    Bartsch, although he lists this print under Bonasone, doubts that it was done by this artist. The editors of The Illustrated Bartsch concur in doubting the attribution. Massari accepts the attribution. (Museum of Fine Art, Boston)

    Associated Passages
    Type
    Image
    Date
    1531–76
    Culture
    Medium
    Location
    New York, Metropolitan Museum

    Tiepolo: Neptune and the Winds

      The sketch illustrates a celebrated passage from Virgil's Aeneid describing how Neptune calmed the winds to save Aeneas from shipwreck. Neptune, his arm raised, commands the winds to desist. Jupiter stands in front of the portico of a circular temple. In 1764–66 Tiepolo decorated a room in the Palacio Real, Madrid, with an apotheosis of Aeneas; the sketch may be related to this project. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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      License
      Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
      Date
      1696–1770
      Culture
      Medium
      Dimensions
      24 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (62.2 x 62.2 cm)
      Location
      The Metropolitan Museum of Art