Dish with King Candaules Exhibiting His Wife Nyssia to Gyges

ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)

30.3 cm 5.5 cm

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This dish depicts an episode from the ancient Greek historian Herodotus’ (484-425 BCE) “The Histories,” and the Roman historian Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus’ “Philippic Histories.” According to both texts, King Candaules of Lydia often boasted of his wife’s beauty to anyone who woul...

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William Bode [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Leopold Heineman [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Douglas H.Gordon [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, April 4, 1951, by gift.
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