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| Keywords: Giovanni Bernardi - The Fall of Phaethon - Walters 4169.jpg The story of Phaeton or Pheathon is described in The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid 43 BC-AD 17 Son of the sun-god Helios Phaeton once decided to drive his father's chariot across the sky When he lost control of the horses endangering the earth Jupiter killed him with a thunderbolt Here Phaeton's mourning sisters are being transformed into trees Ovid wrote that their tears became amber carried away by the Eridanus River today known as the Po River symbolized by the reclining river god The swan is Cycnus Phaeton's friend who was transformed through his grief into a bird Bernardi one of the most important engravers of rock crystal of the Renaissance made this piece in Rome for Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici 1511-35 It copies a famous design by Michelangelo between 1531 1535 rock crystal cm 7 3 6 2 accession number 41 69 27839 Strozzi family Florence Raoul Heilbronner Paris Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Vita di Michelangelo Ente Casa Buonarroti Firenze 2001-2002 Déjà Vu The Repeating Image in Renaissance and Baroque Art The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2007-2008 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Giovanni Bernardi Rock crystal objects Phaeton | ||||
