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Orpheus playing to the animals
Fanelli, Francesco - Enlarge image
Orpheus playing to the animals
- Object:
Relief
- Place of origin:
Italy (made)
- Date:
second quarter of the seventeenth century (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Fanelli, Francesco (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
- Credit Line:
Purchased with funds from the John Webb Trust and the bequest of Captain H B Murray.
- Museum number:
A.4-1975
- Gallery location:
Sculpture, Room 117, case 1 []
This relief has been identified as the work of Francesco Fanelli, a Florentine who worked for a time in London as a sculptor to King Charles I. The relief appears to have been designed for mounting on the central door of a cabinet. Another version of this relief is mounted on the inside of the door of the Florentine mid- 17th century cabinet which was made for the diarist John Evelyn, which is also in the museum collections.