CIRCA 1745, PROBABLY FERDINANDO MARIA CAMPANI

Details

A Siena plate
Circa 1745, probably Ferdinando Maria Campani
Painted with Coriolanus in full armour listening to the pleas of Veturia and Volumnia with a female attendant nearby, among bushes and trees before distant mountains, within a manganese line and ochre rim (cracks from rim enclosing a triangular area of border at 7 o'clock, some flaking to rim)
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Schloß Thallwitz (reverse with red inventory number Th.17.)

Literature

Steffen Berg, op. cit. (January 1996), pl. 23.

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Lot Essay

The Roman General Coriolanus was exiled from Rome in 491 BC. and went to head the forces of the Volsci, a tribe whom he had previously been at war with. His mother Veturia and his wife, Volumnia, came with his children (two boys) to beg him to call of his attack on Rome. He called off his attack, but was later executed by the Volsci.

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