The Story of Hippo

ca. 1460 (Renaissance)

137.3 cm 50.5 cm 3.5 cm

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The ancient Greek tale of the virtuous maiden Hippo unfurls over a sprawling landscape of rolling hills and medieval castles. As first told by the Roman writer Valerius Maximus (1st century CE) and retold by the medieval Italian poet Boccaccio (1313-1375), Hippo was abducted b...

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Cernuschi, Udine [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Simonetti, Rome, 1907 until 1913 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Bottenwieser, Berlin [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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