Pluto and Proserpina
after Vincenzo de' Rossi (Fiesole 1525 - Florence 1587)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1989 (after)
Materials
Bronze on a stone plinth
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 766000.1
Summary
Bronze on Portland stone plinth, Pluto and Prosperpina, a 20th-century replica after a 1570 Rafaello Peri cast of the 1565 original (on long term loan to V&A), attributed to Vincenzo de' Rossi (1525 - 1587), after 1989. One a pair of bronze sculptures, the original (766000.2) is on long term loan to the V&A, since approximately 1989 and a replica (766000.1) remains at Cliveden. Pluto and Proserpina, now attributed to Vincenzo de Rossi, (1525 - 1587) and formerly to Giambologna (Douai 1529 - Florence 1608). A muscular man with thick tightly curled hair strides along, his arms around a woman whom he holds up on his left. She flings her right arm across her, her hand held up flat, her left hand pressing against his left arm which comes round to hold her.
Provenance
Replica made for the National Trust after 1989
Makers and roles
after Vincenzo de' Rossi (Fiesole 1525 - Florence 1587), sculptor