A boy drawing the Medici vase
Print
1656 (printed)
1656 (printed)
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The Medici Vase, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is a Roman marble made about AD50–100. It was at the Villa Medici in Rome by 1598, first appearing in the inventory of the Medici collection that century. The vase was widely copied, and appeared in many prints in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This print by Stefano Della Bella is one of the earliest. The vase, with acanthus leaf carving, is thought to show Ulysses, Agamemnon and Iphigenia. Here it is shown in the gardens of the Villa: the boy is probably the Medici heir who later became Grand Duke Cosimo III.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A boy drawing the Medici vase (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching on paper |
| Brief description | One of 2009 assorted drawings, tracings and prints from the Alma-Tadema Library, which in 1947 was deaccessioned and transferred to Birmingham University Library. |
| Physical description | Print, etching of a boy drawing the Medici vase in a garden setting. |
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| Object history | The Medici Vase, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is a Roman marble made about 50-100 AD. It was at the Villa Medici in Rome by 1598. It was widely copied, after paired with the Borghese Vase (see opposite). Here it is shown in the gardens of the Villa: the boy may well be the Medici heir, later Grand Duke Cosimo III. |
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| Summary | The Medici Vase, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is a Roman marble made about AD50–100. It was at the Villa Medici in Rome by 1598, first appearing in the inventory of the Medici collection that century. The vase was widely copied, and appeared in many prints in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This print by Stefano Della Bella is one of the earliest. The vase, with acanthus leaf carving, is thought to show Ulysses, Agamemnon and Iphigenia. Here it is shown in the gardens of the Villa: the boy is probably the Medici heir who later became Grand Duke Cosimo III. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1527A/528-1915 |
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| Record created | June 6, 2005 |
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