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The Judgment of Paris

Plaquette
ca. 1590-1610 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This plaque was cast from one of a set of sixteen (eight oval and eight octagonal) reliefs with subjects from Ovid's Metamorphoses, designed about 1550-60 by Gughelmo della Porta in Rome and modelled in clay under his supervision by his Flemish assistant Jacob Cobaert. The series was widely known on both sides of the Alpes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as a result of the theft of the models from Guglielmo's workshop after his death and their sale by his disinherited son.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Judgment of Paris
Materials and techniques
Bronze
Brief description
Bronze plaquette depicting the Judgment of Paris, Italo-Flemish, 16th century, J C Cobaert
Physical description
Plaquette, bronze
Credit line
Given by Dr W.L Hildburgh, F.S.A.
Object history
Given by Dr W.L Hildburgh, F.S.A.
Subject depicted
Summary
This plaque was cast from one of a set of sixteen (eight oval and eight octagonal) reliefs with subjects from Ovid's Metamorphoses, designed about 1550-60 by Gughelmo della Porta in Rome and modelled in clay under his supervision by his Flemish assistant Jacob Cobaert. The series was widely known on both sides of the Alpes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as a result of the theft of the models from Guglielmo's workshop after his death and their sale by his disinherited son.
Collection
Accession number
A.98-1937

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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