The death of Dirke (Dirce): her stepsons Zetos (Zethos) and Amphion tie her by her hair to the horns of a bull and have her flung into a well. Engraving, 1633.
- Date:
- 1633
- Reference:
- 11579i
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The sculpture known as the "Farnese Bull", formerly in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, and from 1788 in Naples (latterly Museo Nazionale): Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
Romae : Joseph de Rubeis, 1633.
Physical description
1 print : engraving
References note
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 165-167, no. 15 (without mention of this print)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 11579i
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