Poets on Mount Parnassus

1873

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Dominant colour

Poets on Mount Parnassus is a 1873 by Cesari Mariannecci, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Cesari Mariannecci
When & what style?: 1873 · Impressionism
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

The print is called "Poets on Mount Parnassus". It was made in 1873 by Cesari Mariannecci. The technique used to create this print is interesting - it's a type of print called a chromolithograph, which involves applying a design to a stone and then printing it onto paper. You can learn more about this type of print and others like it at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The story of this work

Overview

This chromolithograph reproduces a scene centered on Apollo seated beneath a laurel tree playing a musical instrument, surrounded by nine Muses and other notable poets. Produced in 1873 for the Arundel Society, the print was created using the color lithography process, where multiple stones were used to apply each color separately. The Arundel Society, named after the 17th-century art collector Thomas Howard, aimed to disseminate knowledge of art through reproductions, focusing primarily on Italian fresco cycles from the 14th to 16th centuries. Subscribers to the society received these…

Read the full account in the museum source.