Detail of Alpheus and Arethusa by Lorenzi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010

Title: Alpheus and Arethusa

Artist: Battista di Domenico Lorenzi (ca. 1528–1594)

Culture: Italian (Florence)

Date: ca. 1570–74

Medium: Marble

Dimensions: H. 58-1/2 in. (148.6 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1940

Accession Number: 40.33

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

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Alpheus and Arethusa
Marble
Battista Lorenzi (1527-1592)
Italina (Florence), 1568-1570

Accession Number: 40.33

In Roman mythology the river god Alpheus pursued the nymph Arethusa until Diana changed her into a fountain. This group was carved to go above a fountain in the villa Il Paradiso at Pian di Ripoli, near Florence, which belonged to Alamanno Bandini, Knight of Malta.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.