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06-MAY-2009

Daddy and Son with Cellini relief .jpg

Here is another example of a parent with a child in the Louvre.
Here the two are stopped in front of Benvenuto Cellini's bronze relief sculpture of the "Nymph of Fontainbleau" made in 1542.
Cellini visited the French court of Francis I, and the king commissioned him to decorate the main entrance of his hunting lodge château at Fontainebleau.
Cellini designed this immense lunette (semicircular) bronze relief representing the Nymph of Fontainebleau, the mythological goddess Diana of the hunt.
The king died in 1547 and the work was never installed.
It was eventually put above the entrance to the Château of Anet, built for Diane de Poitiers,
King Henry II's mistress whose name is coincidentally the same as the subject of the sculpture, Diana the goddess of the hunt.

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