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Source Description
This plaque is among the earliest examples of the technique of enamel on copper used during the Renaissance to depict secular scenes. Although it illustrates a passage from the ancient text of the <em>Aeneid</em>, the architecture and dress are more reflective of the courtly style popular in 16th-century France, when this work was made.
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Document identity
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147942
label
Plaque Depicting the Trojan Horse from the Aeneid
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147942
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object
title
Plaque Depicting the Trojan Horse from the Aeneid
description
This plaque is among the earliest examples of the technique of enamel on copper used during the Renaissance to depict secular scenes. Although it illustrates a passage from the ancient text of the <em>Aeneid</em>, the architecture and dress are more reflective of the courtly style popular in 16th-century France, when this work was made.
date
c. 1530–40
citation
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CC0
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en
wikidata
Q60762991
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5733
genreSpecific
Enamel
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 23.8 x 21.4 cm (9 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
cul
France, Limoges
accession
1974.4
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painted enamel on copper, gilt-silver frame
tombstone
Plaque Depicting the Trojan Horse from the Aeneid, c. 1530–40. Master of the Aeneid Series (French). Painted enamel on copper, gilt-silver frame; overall: 23.8 x 21.4 cm (9 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1974.40
collection
Decorative Arts
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62-102.
page_number
mentioned & reproduced PP 66 & 97, cat. no. 13
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25152580
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
reproduced P 117
creditline
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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2026-05-29 07:35:50.691000
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147942
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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painted enamel on copper, gilt-silver frame
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male
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