Sleeping Endymion
1716
Agostino Cornacchini
Agostino Cornacchini (Italian, 1686–1754)
European Painting and Sculpture
Sleeping Endymion, 1716. Agostino Cornacchini (Italian, 1686–1754). Marble; overall: 64.8 x 53.4 x 45.8 cm (25 1/2 x 21 x 18 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1942.51 Cornacchini moved away from the dramatic movement and light effects characteristic of baroque sculpture toward a calmer, gentler, more graceful style favored by 18th-century taste. This sculpture depicts Endymion, a beautiful young shepherd from Greek mythology. His beauty so entranced Selene, the personification of the moon, that she asked Zeus to grant Endymion immortality. Zeus did so, but only after placing Endymion in an eternal sleep.
- Maker/Artist
- Cornacchini, Agostino
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- marble
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- Overall: 64.8 x 53.4 x 45.8 cm (25 1/2 x 21 x 18 1/16 in.)
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1942.51
- Credit Line
- Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
- Exhibitions
- Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts, Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage, CMA 1971: "Florence and the Arts - Five Centuries of Patronage," cat. no. 39, repr.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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