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Sculpture
Love's Mirror
Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti, 1831 - 1910
Cantalamessa-Papotti, Nicola
Italy
1831 - 1910
Male
85 in. (215.9 cm)
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Marble
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1875
1875
1875
1800-1900, 19th century, Cupid, from Rochester collections, sculpture
Sculpture
When Rochester businessman and art collector Daniel Powers brought this piece home from the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, it made local headlines. One newspaper article admired its “grace and life-likeness rarely met with in modern composition.” The sculpture was on view at Powers’ own gallery downtown for many years, for an admission charge of $.25. Cantalamessa-Papotti also made a portrait of Powers and the monuments for the families of Rochester nurserymen Ellwanger and Barry, at Mt. Hope and Holy Sepulchre cemeteries.
Interpretations of the figures vary: the Powers Gallery catalogue identified the subject as Cupid giving a girl her first lesson in love by means of a mirror, but the figures may in fact be Cupid with his mother Venus, who is often shown holding a mirror. Mythological and allegorical characters were beloved of academic artists, who could illustrate an abstract quality such as vanity while demonstrating their prowess at depicting the human figure.
[Gallery label text, 2011]
1966.20
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