Stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses: Orpheus's Wedding Interrupted; Venus Mourning Adonis

Artist Unknown north Italian artist (Lombard or Venetian)

Datecirca 1490–1510

MediumMarble

Dimensions13 x 47 in. (33.0 x 119.4 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number58.4.7

On View

On view

Published ReferencesW. R. V[alentiner], "A Relief by Benedetto Briosco," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), 17-18, illus. (b-w) 17.

W. R. Valentiner, "Michelangelo's 'Cupid' for Jacopo Gallo," The Art Quarterly 21, no. 3 (Autumn 1958), 258, illus. 260.

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 10, illus. (b-w) 40, fig. 10.

Ernst Moritz Manasse, "The Mourning for the Beloved," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, no. 4 (Summer 1964), 3-24, illus (b-w) 3, details (b-w) 4, 21, front cover.

The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535, gallery guide by Kendall Curlee (Austin, TX, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery), 24.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 40-41.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 10, illus. (b-w).

Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance," November 18, 1959-January 4, 1959.

Austin, TX, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, "The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance," October 27-December 18, 1988; Berkeley, CA, University Art Museum, January 18-May 12, 1989; New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, April 16-June 4, 1989.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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