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Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos
Giovanni Maria Moscac. 1510-1515
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
A snake bit the Greek warrior Philoctetes en route to the Trojan War. The stench of the infected wound led the ship’s crew to abandon him on the island of Lemnos, where he fans the agonizing injury with a bird’s wing. The warrior’s noble suffering in the face of tremendous pain would have been a classical model of stoic composure, highly valued in Renaissance court culture.
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- Title: Philoctetes on the Island of Lemnos
- Creator: Giovanni Maria Mosca (Italian, 1495/99-1574)
- Date Created: c. 1510-1515
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 29 x 23 x 8.5 cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly Walter Savage Landor, 1775-1864 (London, England), by gift to his brother, Henry Savage Landor, Possibly Henry Savage Landor, John Pope-Hennessy, 1913-1994 (New York, New York), sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel., Rosenberg and Stiebel (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.168
- Medium: marble
- Department: European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Italy, 16th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Sculpture
- Accession Number: 1973.168
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