Diana and Endymion

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Diana and Endymion

c. 1700

Carlo Cignani (Italian, 1628–1719)

Cignani was a critical link between Bologna's great seventeenth-century classicizing tradition and its eighteenth-century inheritors. He had the honor of being named the first and only "director for life" of the city's art academy, the Accademia Clementina. This drawing shows a scene from Greek mythology in which Endymion, a handsome shepherd kept ever youthful through eternal sleep, is adored by the moon goddess Selene, or Diana.

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Object Details

Title:

Diana and Endymion

Date:

c. 1700

Artist:

Carlo Cignani (Italian, 1628–1719)

Medium:

Brush and brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on blue laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 9 13/16 x 11 1/4 inches (24.9 x 28.5 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Bequest of Anthony Morris Clark, 1978

Accession Number:

1978-70-235

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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