id:			148091
accession number:	1975.112
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.112
updated:		2022-10-29 15:12:27.320000

Ewer with Triumph of Galatea, c. 1700. Massimiliano Soldani (Italian, 1656–1740). Bronze; overall: 81.5 x 35.5 x 26.5 cm (32 1/16 x 14 x 10 7/16 in.); base: 8.9 x 25.9 x 26.5 cm (3 1/2 x 10 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1975.112

title:				Ewer with Triumph of Galatea
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creation date:			c. 1700
creation date earliest:		1695
creation date latest:		1705
current location:		217 Italian Baroque
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Italy, Florence, late 17th-early 18th Century
technique:	bronze
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Massimiliano Soldani (Italian, 1656–1740)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 81.5 x 35.5 x 26.5 cm (32 1/16 x 14 x 10 7/16 in.); Base: 8.9 x 25.9 x 26.5 cm (3 1/2 x 10 3/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1976:  "Year in Review 1975," Bulletin, LXIII (February 1976), p. 65, no. 16, illus.

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PROVENANCE

	Cyril Humphris, born 1932 (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
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digital description: 
Upon discovering the sea nymph Galatea's infidelity, her betrothed, the Cyclops Polyphemus, pulverizes her lover Acis with a rock. In grief, Galatea turns his blood into a river and Acis becomes god of that river, which bears his name. Here Galatea escorts a swarm of sea creatures in celebration of Acis's apotheosis.

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When the Cyclops Polyphemus discovered that his betrothed, the sea nymph Galataea, had been unfaithful, he pulverized her lover Acis with a rock. In grief, Galatea turned her lover’s blood into a river, and Acis became god of the Sicilian river that bears his name. Here, Galatea escorts a swarm of sea creatures in celebration of Acis’s apotheosis. The subject was perfectly suited to both Soldani’s fluid and highly animated style, and the traditional function of the ewer as a vessel for pouring water.
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