Mirror with the Three Graces
Artist
Unknown
Date2nd century
MediumSilvered bronze, gilding
DimensionsDiam. 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm)
Thickness approx. 1/16 in. (2 mm)
Thickness approx. 1/16 in. (2 mm)
ClassificationsMetal
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number77.1.8
On View
On viewR. Lullies, Mitteilungen des Institutes 1 (1948), 45-52.
(From Summa Galleries statement) M. Borda, La Scuola di Pasiteles (Bari, 1953), 79 ff.
Cornelius Vermeule, "Roman Pictorial Mirrors," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 14, nos. 2 and 3 (1980), 25-39, illus. (b-w) 28.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 54.
John R. Spencer, "Speculations on the Origins of the Italian Renaissance Medal," J. Graham Pollard, ed., Studies in History of Art, Vol. 21 (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1987), 197-98, illus. 198.
Elizabeth J. Milleker, "The Three Graces on a Roman Relief Mirror," Metropolitan Museum Journal 23 (1988), 69-78, illus. 72.
M. Ju Treister and M I. Zolotarev, "Moulds for Casting of Matrices for Roman Relief Mirrors from Chersonessus," in 'Bronces y Religion Romana,' Actar del XI Congresso International de bronces antiquos (Mayo-Junio 1990), 431, illus. 441.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 27.
Alejandro Vergara, Las Tres Gracias de Rubens (Madrid: Tf. Editores, 2001), mentioned 37, listed 147, illus. (color) 38.
Tiziano/Rubens: Venus ante el espejo (exhibition catalogue) (Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2002), cat. no. 4, briefly discussed 42, illus. (color) 45.
José Ignacio Aguirre, "Duelo de bellezas," (exhibition review) El Mundo: Metropoli (September 27, 2002), mentioned and illus. (color) 51.
Victoria Eugenia Arenal, "Tiziano-Rubens, 'Venus ante el espejo'," (exhibition review) Jano: Medicina y Humanidades (October 4, 2002), mentioned 88.
Fernando Marías, "Meditaciones sobre un espejo perdido," (exhibition review) ABC Cultural (October 19, 2002), mentioned 32.
Alejandro Vergara, "Madrid: Titian and Rubens," (exhibition review) The Burlington Magazine 144, no. 1197 (December 2002), mentioned 780.
Doris Carl, “An inventory of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s collection of antiquities,” The Burlington Magazine 161, no. 1393 (April 2019), illus. (b-w) 288, fig. 20(g).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," December 14, 1978-January 28, 1979.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, "Tiziano/Rubens," September 23, 2002-January 26, 2003, cat. no. 4, illus. (color).
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