Small Casket with the Judgement of Paris

1505-1525 (Renaissance)

19.4 cm 13.7 cm

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This casket, which would have been used to hold valuable trinkets and may have been intended as a sentimental gift, is decorated with amorous scenes from Classical mythology. On the front left, Actaeon is transformed into a stag as he watches Diana--goddess of the moon and the...

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F. Ongania, Venice [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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