Copy after Arpino's Perseus and Andromeda
ArtistWorkshop of
Giuseppe Cesari, Cavaliere d'Arpino
(Italian, 1568 – 1640)
Date1602-03
CultureItalian
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN108
Giuseppe Cesari enjoyed decades of papal patronage and was the principal painter to Pope Clement VIII, making him one of the most successful artists in the early decades of 17th-century Rome. A renowned fresco painter, Cesari also produced a series of smaller cabinet paintings of mythological subjects for private patrons. This work depicts a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Perseus frees Andromeda, the daughter of Cassiopeia, from death at the hands of Ceto, the sea monster who tormented the kingdom of Ethiopia. The mythological subject was among Cesari's favorites, as he painted several versions throughout his career.
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On viewLocation
DimensionsImage: 29 1/4 x 21 3/8 in. (74.3 x 54.3 cm)- Museum of Art, Gallery 09, Wall South
Frame: 37 1/2 × 29 5/8 in. (95.3 × 75.2 cm)
Girolamo Romanino
