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Zeus and Ganymede
Michelangelo Maestri (Italian, d. 1812)
ca. 1802
- Medium
- Brush and tempera on heavy paper
- Classification
- Drawings
- Dimensions
- Drawing: 32.5 × 28.2 cm (12 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Rome
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Zeus, seated on a throne, holds fire in his right hand, while his left hand rests on the shoulder of the young Ganymede, who holds a salver in his left hand. Beside Zeus is an eagle, and below, in a rainbox the zodiacal signs of a lion, a crab and scales. Possibly after decorations for the apartments of Cardinal Bibbiena in the Vatican.
