Base for a Satyr and Satyress Group (early 1500s or later): Art, History and Details

Base for a Satyr and Satyress Group (early 1500s or later) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The pagan subject matter here was common in the 1500s and, with the pan pipes on the ground, indicates a scene of poetry and music. Long thought to be an ink stand, the two openings are now understood as possibly having housed a satyr and satyress.

Object facts

• Title: Base for a Satyr and Satyress Group
• Date: early 1500s or later
• Culture: Italy, possibly Padua, early 16th century or later
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 33.7 x 14.9 x 18.4 cm (13 1/4 x 5 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1950.375

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Planiscig, Leo. Piccoli Bronzi Italiani Del Rinascimento. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1930. no. 124.
• Meller, Simon. "Dr. Wittmann Ernő kisplasztikai gyűjteménye." Magyar Művészet 10 (1934): 235–236.
• Milliken, William. "Two Renaissance Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 2 (February 1951): 36-37, 42-44.

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