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Andrea Meldolla, il Schiavone (1527/30-1563)
Andrea Meldolla, il Schiavone (1527/30-1563)

Ceres in a chariot drawn by dragons

細節
Andrea Meldolla, il Schiavone (1527/30-1563)
Ceres in a chariot drawn by dragons
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on brown paper, minor losses and fold damage
376 x 275 mm.

拍品專文

Another version of the same subject is in the University Art Museum, Princeton, F.L. Richardson, Andrea Schiavone, Oxford, 1980, no. 198. Ceres is usually represented carrying torches, symbolising her search for her daughter Prosperina, taken to the Underworld by Pluto. The grief-stricken earth was barren for the four months of the year that Proserpina was away, the flowers of Spring heralding her return.