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Alpheus and Arethusa

Alpheus and Arethusa

Maker (Italian, 1687-1748)
Additional Title(s)
  • The Rape of Persephone
Collections
ClassificationsSCULPTURE
Date1719-1724
Mediumlimestone
Dimensions94 × 45 × 27 in. (238.8 × 114.3 × 68.6 cm.) base: 37 × 53 × 27 in. (94 × 134.6 × 68.6 cm.) overall: 132 × 53 × 27 in. (335.3 × 134.6 × 68.6 cm.)
DescriptionThis sculptural group is inspired by a Greek legend about love drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (V, 572-641). It portrays Arethusa, the goddess Dyana’s nymph and the river god Alpheus in pursuit of her.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
On view
Object number14.52
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Object number: 14.51
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Object number: 26.88
Illustration 4 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan Spying on Adam and Eve and Raphael's Descent into Paradise
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William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.5
Illustration 5 to Milton's "Comus": The Magic Banquet with the Lady Spell-Bound
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ca. 1801
Object number: 000.24
Illustration 4 to Milton's "Comus": The Brothers Meet the Attendant Spirit in the Wood
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William Blake
ca. 1801
Object number: 000.23
Illustration 9 to Milton's "Paradise Lost": The Temptation and Fall of Eve
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William Blake
1807
Object number: 000.10
Photography © 2015 Fredrik Nilsen
Perseus Arming
Alfred Gilbert
ca. 1882
Object number: 2005.4
Time
Time
Unknown
n.d.
Object number: 22.9
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Bacchus
Agostino Testa
late 17th Century
Object number: 20.45
Venus Blindfolded by Cupid
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Federico Gætano Villa
1876
Object number: 14.55
Illustration 4 to Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The Overthrow of Apollo and the Pagan Gods
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ca. 1814-1816
Object number: 000.17
L'Amour Captif de la Jeunesse
L'Amour Captif de la Jeunesse
Unknown
ca. 1850-1900
Object number: 27.2