Running Stream at San Cosimato
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Object Label
Amulets
In the New Kingdom, amulets represented magic in miniature form.
At that time, the Egyptians frequently wore amulets proclaiming their devotion to the cult of major deities such as Thoth, god of wisdom, or Hathor, an ancient goddess associated with music and love. These charms were intended to provide protection from specific dangers. Amulets of birth-gods, for example, were believed to protect women during pregnancy and childbirth and to watch over a newborn in the first years of life.
In the Eighteenth Dynasty, certain amulets began to be placed within mummy bandages to guarantee life after death. The most common included wedjat-eyes, signifying the restoration of wholeness; tyt-amulets, emblems of the goddess Isis, who restored her dead husband Osiris to life; and flowers, traditional symbols of fertility. Beads inscribed with a person’s name ensured that the memory of the individual would survive throughout eternity.
So-called heart scarabs, known since the Thirteenth Dynasty, are frequently found on New Kingdom mummies. The Egyptians believed that a deceased person’s fate would be determined by weighing his or her heart against the “Feather of Truth” on a divine balance. Texts carved on heart scarabs prevented the deceased’s heart from revealing anything negative during the weighing ritual.
Caption
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld French, 1758–1846. Running Stream at San Cosimato, 1788. Oil on paper laid down on canvas, 12 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (31.1 × 49.8 cm) 12 3/8 × 19 11/16 in. (31.5 × 50 cm) frame: 18 × 25 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (45.7 × 64.1 × 8.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund and Healy Purchase Fund B, 1996.93. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1996.93_SL3.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Running Stream at San Cosimato
Date
1788
Geography
Place made: Italy
Medium
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
12 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (31.1 × 49.8 cm) 12 3/8 × 19 11/16 in. (31.5 × 50 cm) frame: 18 × 25 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (45.7 × 64.1 × 8.3 cm)
Signatures
Signed bottom left: "Bidauld/1788"
Inscriptions
Verso: "Le Tesserone, à St. Cosimato/payé à M. Bidauld/deux milles Francs/en 1830/Lg."
Credit Line
A. Augustus Healy Fund and Healy Purchase Fund B
Accession Number
1996.93
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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Frequent Art Questions
This is amazing, I can feel the movement.
That water is really surging around the rocks. You can feel the current!Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld dedicated himself to landscape painting in his career, and he worked in France and Italy. One of his patrons was Napoleon, not bad, right?
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