Designed by Baldassare Peruzzi / Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses / ca. 1518 (?)

Designed by Baldassare Peruzzi
Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
ca. 1518 (?)
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Creator Name: Peruzzi, Baldassare
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: Italian, 1481 - 1536
Creator Name-CRT: Designed by Baldassare Peruzzi
Creator Name: Ugo da Carpi
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Italian, flourished ca. 1502 - 1532
Creator Name-CRT: Ugo da Carpi
Title: Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
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Creation Start Date: 1516
Creation End Date: 1520
Creation Date: ca. 1518 (?)
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks
Dimensions: 11-3/4 x 9 in. (29.8 x 22.9 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 20.24.76
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

For Renaissance artists, classical mythology was an inexhaustible source of subjects, sometimes shown as recounted in ancient texts, more often devised to suit the purposes of artist or patron. The theme of one or more of the Vices being expelled by a figure personifying Virtue was frequent; here Hercules, often shown exemplifying strength in the service of Virtue, chases Avarice, one of the seven Vices, personified by a woman carrying a load of precious goods. Minerva standing, Apollo seated, and the Muses all look on with satisfaction. No drawing of this subject by Peruzzi is known, nor are the date or specific purpose or reference (if any) of the composition. Ugo da Carpi was the prime Italian practitioner of the medium of chiaroscuro woodcut-a method in which an image is created by printing two or more blocks, one usually in black, the other(s) in color, each of which contributes lines or shading not found on the others to the final image; the word 'chiaroscuro' in Italian literally means 'light-dark.' Ugo and Peruzzi were both in Rome between 1518 and 1527, and they could have worked together at that time, or possibly somewhat earlier, as Peruzzi had numerous connections with Ugo's native Carpi, a small town near Reggio and Modena.

AMICA ID: MMA_.20.24.76
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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