The king, the poet, and the nation : a French sixteenth-century relief and the Pléiade

Author

Mezzatesta, Michael P.

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

IL 60 : essays honoring Irving Lavin on his sixtieth birthday

Author (monograph)

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

IL 60 : essays honoring Irving Lavin on his sixtieth birthday. 1990, p. 227-252, 10 ill.

Publisher

Italica, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Analyzes the iconography of an anonymous 16th c. alabaster relief from the Fountain of Diana at Anet, now in the collection of Michael Hall, in which Jupiter, Mercury, two putti (Gemini), and a centaur (Sagittarius) are depicted around a fountain enclosed in a circle; finds allusions to issues of politics and metaphysics in poetry of the Pléiade at the court of Henri II (1550s).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture -- France
• Iconography
• Hall, Michael, 20th c.
• Sculpture
• Relief sculpture
• France
• 1500-1600
• Henri II, king of France, 1519-1559
• Jupiter (god)
• Mercury (god)
• Sagittarius
• Gemini
• Fountains
• Centaurs
• Pléiade (literary group)
• Politics
• Poetry
• Collections
• château||Anet (FRA)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture -- France
• Iconographie
• Hall, Michael, 20~e s.
• Sculpture
• Relief
• France
• 1500-1600
• Henri II, roi de France, 1519-1559
• Jupiter (dieu)
• Mercure (dieu)
• Sagittaire
• Gémeaux (astrologie)
• Fontaine
• Centaure
• Pléiade (groupe littéraire)
• Politique
• Poésie
• Collections
• château||Anet (FRA)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00454949

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