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Portrait of Caterina Balbi Durazzo
Crucified Christ
Charity of St. Lawrence
Sibyl Samia
application
Rape of Proserpina
Bacchus
Fight between Perseus and Phineus
Dead Christ mourned by two angels
Portrait of Giovanni Luca Durazzo
Rape of Proserpina
Adonis
Christ at the column
Dionysus
Bust of Flora
Jupiter and Astrea
The torture of Prometheus
The Triumph of Bacchus
The fame of the Balbi
Putties
Putties
Become a danzanti
Secretary
Mantel clock
The impiety of Niobe
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Night clock

The impiety of Niobe

François de la Planche

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Royal Palace Museum

Royal Palace Museum

Via Balbi, 10, Genoa

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The tapestry depicts Ovid's version of the mythical story of the wicked Niobe. Proud of her divine origins and even more of her numerous offspring, Niobe induced the Thebans to leave out a sacrifice to Latona who had given birth only to Apollo and Diana, proposing the cult of her own person. Two other tapestries, also preserved in the collection of Palazzo Rele, are produced with this cloth, the first with Diana the huntress (Sala degli Arazzi) and the second with Diana with Oto and Ephialte (Sala delle Adienze). As demonstrated by the brand and the monograms woven along the selvedge, the three tapestries were made in Paris at the beginning of the seventeenth century in the so-called boutique d'or, the most important of the factories of the production complex activated in 1607 by Frans van den Planken, Frenchized in François de La Planche.
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Title: The impiety of Niobe

Author: François de la Planche

Date: 1607-1610

Technique: Tapestry wool, silk, silver thread and gilded silver on a silk core

Displayed in: Royal Palace Museum

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