Etching after Bernardo Buontalenti, depicting a chariot procession of Poseidon, held on May 28, 1589, for the wedding of Ferdinando I and Christine of Lorraine, intended to show “how the waters of the world had come to pay tribute to the new Grand Duchess”.
Featured on PDR in the essay Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond
Idling alongside the waters of artificial grottoes, visitors found themselves in lush, otherworldly settings, where art and nature, pleasure and peril, and humans and nymphs could, for a time, coexist. Laura Tradii spelunks through the handmade caves of the Italian Renaissance and their reception abroad, illuminating how these curious spaces transformed across the centuries.
Also appearing in the essay…
Chariot Procession of Poseidon, Held on May 28, 1589, for the Wedding of Ferdinando I and Christine of Lorraine
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