Frieze of Children Dancing to a Bag-pipe
1504
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1504
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Frieze of Children Dancing to a Bag-pipe is a 1504 by Giorgio Reverdino, a Renaissance work, depicting Putti, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a line of chubby kids in puffy pants dancing to a bagpiper in a garden. Their faces look serious, like they take dance class way too seriously. The background is just green blobs—no fancy buildings or clouds. The oddest part? The bagpiper wears a hat that looks like a flying carpet. It’s not a normal Renaissance hat. Maybe the artist wanted to joke around. This work feels like a cousin of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s fruit-face portraits. Look up Giuseppe Arcimboldo next.
Georges Reverdy (French, active 1529-1561) Frieze of Children Dancing to a Bagpipe, 1570 Engraving Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1928.771
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Giorgio Reverdino (1531–1564) was an Italian artist, born in Chivasso.
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