A goblet filled with poison : an attempt to interpret a painting from the archbishop's gallery in Kroměříž
Vol.73,No.2(2024)
Abstract
Keywords:
Commodus; Themistocles; Mithridates; Andromachus the Elder; theriac; history painting ("istoria"); Giovanni Battista Carlone; Karl von Lichtenstein-Castelcorno
Pages:
110–121
In the archbishop's gallery at the Kroměříž castle there is a painting whose mysterious theme and very author have occupied researchers for many years. The painting recorded in the collection inventories as "Grosses Histori-Bild" or "Sterbescene" can now be interpreted as an iconographically exceptional work, drawing its theme not only from ancient Roman history, but also from the chapters of ancient medicine; on the order of crowned heads fearing for their lives, the latter attempted to create and perfect an effective cure for poisoning. This "istoria" became an example of a 17th-century artist's non-dogmatic approach to depicting an episode taken from the books of the ancient classics and their modern compilations.
Commodus; Themistocles; Mithridates; Andromachus the Elder; theriac; history painting ("istoria"); Giovanni Battista Carlone; Karl von Lichtenstein-Castelcorno
110–121
