An Allegory of Immortality
Date:
c. 1540
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (69.9 × 69.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund
Object number:
66.41
The painting is divided into three separate levels depicting various scenes. A figure in a boat on dark, storm-tossed waters is in the lower level. Mountainous shores with the figure of a gigantic polyphemus vomiting at left and a harpy on a globe at center are depicted in the middle level. The upper level consists of clouds with a reclining nude youth looking downward at left, a phoenix at center and Apollo's chariot at right.
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