Hippocamp (Sea Horse)

1510-1540 (Renaissance)

28.6 cm 20 cm

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In antiquity, hippocamps, or sea horses, mythical creatures that were half horse and half fish, were represented drawing the chariot of Neptune, Roman god of the sea. Renaissance artists in the territory of Venice, which trumpeted itself as ruler of the seas, delighted in repr...

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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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