This image is a photo from the book:"eros visible: art, sexuality and antiquity in renaissance italy"
publisher:yale university press location:new haven
date:2017
the figure of narcissus on this maiolica plate has been copied from the third woodcut copy image of i modi. [1] i modi was an erotic book created in around 1524 - 1527 that contained engravings of sexual scenes. [2]
artist: francesco xanto avelli
title: narcissus ('il vano amante di sua propria imago') - the vain lover of his own image. Date: 1533
tin-glazed maiolica plate
dimensions: 26. 5 cm
formerly schlossmuseum, berlin, presumed destroyed. Black and white photograph courtesy of kunstgewerbemuseum, berlin.
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