Plate
Date1516 - 1576
Maker
Italian, Urbino
Probably
Workshop of
Guido Durantino
Italian
Label TextAccording to Livy's "History of Rome", completed in about the year 9, the Roman hero Marcus Curtius, seen on this plate, sacrificed himself to save Rome by plunging on horseback into a chasm that had opened in the Roman Forum.
Object number57.50
ProvenanceSpitzer Collection sale in 1893, Volume 4, No. 118, catalogued by Emile Molinier in 1892; [David Benzaria, New York, by 1956]; purchased from Mr. Benzaria by Seattle Art Museum, January 4, 1957
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions1 5/8 x 17 1/4 in. (4.1 x 43.8 cm)
marli 2 ½ in. wide
MediumMaiolica
Max Beckmann
1921
Object number: 69.47.3
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