Design for Ornamental Dish with Three Portraits of the Caesars, late 16th century
Theodor de Bryexpand_more
Engraving and etchingexpand_more
Gift of the Estate of Kemper Kirkpatrickexpand_more P.92.8.19
Not on Viewexpand_more
The "twelve Caesars" became a popular theme after Suetonius's biography of the emperors was published in 1470. Theodor de Bry put them on a set of dish designs, here showing Augustus, Vitellius, and Domitian. The profiles are based on portrait medals by Paduan Giovanni Cavino, whose renderings established the standard look of the twelve Caesars in art. In a humorous turnabout, de Bry's Caesars are surrounded not by scenes of conquest but by grotesques and capering jesters.
Details
- Title
- Design for Ornamental Dish with Three Portraits of the Caesars
- Artist Life
- 1528 - 1598
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.92.8.19
- Provenance
- Purchased at Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, January 18, 1978
- Curator Approved
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