Omnia Vincit Amor

Agostino Carracci1599

Details

Title: Omnia Vincit Amor
Creator: Agostino Carracci
Date Created: 1599
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “1599 A.C.IN.”; inscribed in cloud area, upper center: title; initialed below border: “P.S.F.”
Print State: Only state
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center and purchase funds, 1987
Materials & Techniques: Engraving (and on verso, an orange crayon drawing of a head by an unknown artist of the 18th or 19th century)
Keywords: allegory, mythology, nudes, satyrs (Greek mythology)
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Sheet dimensions: 127 mm x 189 mm (5 in. x 7.44 in.).
Bibliography: Bohlin 210; Bartsch 116 (vol. 18, p. 103), titled “Pan dompté par l’Amour” (Pan subdued by Cupid); see Lemarchand, L’amours des dieux, fig. 183 for Carracci’s smaller size series on “Love”; see Bohlin, fig. 210a for a preliminary drawing in the Staedel Institute, Frankfurt; see Schab catalogue, Fall 1989 (4) on the god Pan, in form of satyr, being so moved at the sight of Venus that she instructs Amor to restrain him
Associated People: Created by Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557-1602)
Accession Number: 1987.23.1

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