Article ID: CBB012081047

Authority and Invention: Castiglione and the Reception of the St. Louis Reclining Pan (2015)

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The St. Louis Art Museum’s statue ofReclining Panproved inspirational to many artists of the seventeenth century, none more so than Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. The artist reproduced the statue in many of his works, making it a symbol of hisinvenzione. Previously, the few reproductions known of the statue have given the impression that Baroque audiences considered it antiquwct 2 e, and of less interest than other antiquities. This article corrects that assumption by examining Castiglione’s, as well as Peter Paul Rubens’, Joachim von Sandrart’s, Nicolas Poussin’s, and Salvator Rosa’s uses of the statue. The artists used thePanas both figural exemplar and symbol for pastoral themes. These artistic responses are here set alongside new information concerning thePan’s seventeenth-century provenance, display, and attribution to Bernini, to reveal theReclining Panas a primary catalyst for the period’s extensive Arcadian and bacchanalian imagery while simultaneously representing lessons of the classical style.

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Authors & Contributors
John Holmes
Schollenberger, Hans Joachim
Corradini, Elena
Inglehart, Ashley J.
Nichols, Kate
Parezo, Nancy
Concepts
Museums
Science
Sculpture
Fine arts
Science and art
Exhibits
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
16th century
Renaissance
20th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Greece
England
United States
Europe
Colorado (U.S.)
Institutions
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
British Museum
Crystal Palace
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