About this artwork
Cornelis Cort’s engraving recreates a lost painting by the ancient Greek artist Apelles, an allegory of slander known only from a detailed description by the ancient historian Lucian. Renaissance artists including Sandro Botticelli, Andrea Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, and even Pieter Brueghel produced drawings and paintings based on the historian Lucian’s descriptions in homage to various artists of antiquity. Dürer was even called “the Apelles of the North.” Cort’s engraving includes an illusionistic heavily sculptured frame, which highlights prints’ ability to mimic paintings as objects, as well as revive their iconography.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Cornelis Cort
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Title
- The Calumny of Apelles
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Place
- Holland (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1572
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Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 40.8 × 55.6 cm (16 1/8 × 21 15/16 in.); Plate/sheet, trimmed slightly within platemark: 42 × 55.7 cm (16 9/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Print and Drawing Fund and Stanley Field Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1994.249
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/131389/manifest.json
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