MAKE A MEME View Large Image Francesco Xanto Avelli - "Pilgrim Flask" with Mercury and Psyche - Walters 481373.jpg This vessel one of the earliest signed and dated works by Xanto Avelli is shaped like the flasks carried by traveling pilgrims hence its name The image of ...
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Keywords: Francesco Xanto Avelli - "Pilgrim Flask" with Mercury and Psyche - Walters 481373.jpg This vessel one of the earliest signed and dated works by Xanto Avelli is shaped like the flasks carried by traveling pilgrims hence its name The image of the god Mercury carrying his beloved the mortal Psyche to Mt Olympus is adapted from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi ca 1475-1530 the most famous Renaissance engraver after a wall-painting by Raphael in the Villa Farnesina in Rome 1530 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 36 5 22 4 accession number 48 1373 37839 Spain date and mode of deposition unknown Samuel Addington prior to 1862 by purchase Boulton no 92 George Robinson Harding London date of acquisition unknown by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 place of origin Urbino Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Francesco Xanto Avelli Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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