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Beccafumi's 'Story of Papirius' in the National Gallery

09/2001 | 1182 | 143

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Author:

Plazzotta, Carol (Plazzotta, Carol)

Subjects

artists:

Beccafumi, Domenico

dates:

1500-1549

museums and institutions:

National Gallery, London, Great Britain

places:

Italy / Florence

sources:

Aulus Gellius

subjects:

Italian painting / Roman iconography

Illustrations

Attributed works:

37. The Story of Papirius, by Domenico Beccafumi. c.1519-21. Panel, 74.6 by 138.4 cm. (National Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

38. Detail of Fig.37, Showing Papirius Entreated by His Mother to Disclose the Deliberations of the Senate.

Attributed works:

39. Detail of Fig.37, Showing Two Roman Men Marvelling at the 'Strange Madness of the Women'.

Attributed works:

40. Detail of Fig.37, Showing Papirius Intervening before the Senate to Explain the Mystery behind the Strange Petition of the Matrons of Rome.

Attributed works:

41. Papirius Entreated by His Mother to Disclose the Deliberations of the Senate. Anonymous Copy after One of the Roundels in Nuremberg Town Hall by Dürer and His Workshop. c.1560-70. Water-Colour. 49.5 by 34.5 cm. (Bayerisches Staatsarchiv, Nüremburg).

Attributed works:

42. Papirius Intervening before the Senate to explain the mystery behind the strange petition of the matrons of Rome. Detail from The Springtime of Life, one of four tapestries known as The Twelve Ages of Man. Flemish (Brussels), designed c.1520-23, woven c.1525-28. Whole c.442 by 716 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Attributed works:

43. The Rising of the Women of Rome, by Pieter Isaacsz. c.1600. Copper, 41.5 by 62 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Attributed works:

45. Papirius Praetextatus Entreated by His Mother to Disclose the Deliberations of the Senate, by Angelica Kauffmann. c.1775-80. 62.75 cm. diameter (The Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum).

Western art unattributed:

44. 'Papirius and His Mother'. Greek, 1st Century A. D. Marble, Height 1.92 m. (Female Figure); 1.70 m. (Male Figure) (Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps, Rome).

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