drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.1564
- Description
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The Triumph of Silenus, after Belli; bourne by two satyrs and accompanied by Maenads, oval
Brush drawing in grey and black wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on grey paper
- Production date
- 1483-1546
- Dimensions
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Height: 218 millimetres
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Width: 286 millimetres (oval)
- Curator's comments
- A copy after a jade intaglio in the Cabinet de Médailles, Paris, long believed to be an antique work but now attributed to Valerio Belli (see Belli catalogue no. 154). The latter made a plaquette based on the jade.
Lit: H. Burns, M. Collareta and D. Gasparotto (eds), 'Valerio Belli Vicentino 1486c-1546', Vicenza, under no. 154, p. 358, illustrated in colour p. 244
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996/7 Dec-Mar, Vicenza, Palazzo Thiene, 'Valerio Belli Vicentino'
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.1564