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    30 October 2002

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    • Domenico Fiasella, il Sarzana
    Lot 131

    Domenico Fiasella, il Sarzana (Sarzana 1589-1669 Genoa)

    Queen Artemisia

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    GBP 9,400

    Estimate

    GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000

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    Domenico Fiasella, il Sarzana (Sarzana 1589-1669 Genoa)
    Queen Artemisia
    oil on canvas
    39 7/8 x 30 in. (101.2 x 76.1 cm.)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Catalogue of the exhibition, Johannes Vermeer, The Hague and Washington, 1996, p. 111, under no. 5, fig. 4, as by Fiasella.


    Lot Essay

    Artemisia was the wife of Mausolus, the satrap of Caria in Asia Minor. She succeeded her husband on his death in 353 B.C., and was responsible for the erection of a great monument to his memory (although construction probably began in his lifetime). Known to posterity as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, it was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was said that she mixed the ashes of Mausolus in liquid that she then drank, thereby, as observed by Valerius Maximus, making of herself a living, breathing tomb. In consequence, Artemisia was understood in the Renaissance as symbolizing a wife's devotion to her husband.

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