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English: This image is a photo from the book:"Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy"

Publisher:Yale University Press Location:New Haven

Date:2017


The figure of Narcissus on this Maiolica plate has been copied from the third woodcut copy image of I modi.[1] I modi was an erotic book created in around 1524 - 1527 that contained engravings of sexual scenes.[2]

Artist: Francesco Xanto Avelli

Title: Narcissus ('il vano amante di sua propria imago') - The vain lover of his own image.

Date: 1533

Tin-glazed maiolica plate

Dimensions: 26.5 cm

Formerly Schlossmuseum, Berlin, presumed destroyed.

Black and white photograph courtesy of Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
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Source "Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy" New Haven: Yale University Press 2017
Author James Grantham Turner
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  1. James Grantham Turner (2017) Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy, Yale University Press ISBN: 978-0-300-21995-1.
  2. James Grantham Turner (2009-06). "Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"". Print Quarterly 26 (2): 115, 116 - 117.

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Francesco Xanto Avelli Title: Narcissus ('il vano amante di sua propria imago') Tin-glazed maiolica plate Date: 1533

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