Hercules and Omphale
Unknown Northern European, Europe
School of Agostino Busti, Italian, 1483 - 1548
16th century
Alabaster
Overall: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Leon A. Marantz, Class of 1935, 1967P, 1970P
S.977.206
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Sculpture
On view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
ARTH 27.02, Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 21, 1981.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
New Selections from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 23-June 30, 1979.
Provenance
Leon Albert Marantz, East Orange, New Jersey; given to present collection, 1977.
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