Editing Nymph (section)

== Sleeping nymph ==
[[File:Stourhead, Grotto, statue of a sleeping nymph.jpg|thumb|The statue of a sleeping nymph in a [[grotto]] at [[Stourhead]] gardens, England.]]
A motif that entered European art during the [[Renaissance]] was the idea of a statue of a nymph sleeping in a [[grotto]] or spring.<ref name="National Gallery of Art">{{cite web|title=The Nymph of the Spring|url=http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.43716.html|website=National Gallery of Art|access-date=23 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="Campbell2004">{{cite book|author=Stephen John Campbell|title=The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella D'Este|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z_GBq346SKIC&pg=PA95|year=2004|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-11753-0|pages=95–6}}</ref><ref name="AinsworthWaterman2013">{{cite book|author1=Maryan Wynn Ainsworth|author2=Joshua P. Waterman|author3=Dorothy Mahon |title=German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKkSBtJNBUwC&pg=PA95|year=2013|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-487-3|pages=95–6}}</ref> This motif supposedly came from an Italian report of a Roman sculpture of a nymph at a fountain above the [[River Danube]].<ref name="Levenson(U.S.)1991">{{cite book|author1=Jay A. Levenson|author2=National Gallery of Art (U.S.)|title=Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wMK-Ba0-RG4C&pg=PA260|year=1991|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-05167-4|page=260}}</ref> The report, and an accompanying poem supposedly on the fountain describing the sleeping nymph, are now generally concluded to be a fifteenth-century [[forgery]], but the motif proved influential among artists and landscape gardeners for several centuries after, with copies seen at [[Neoclassicism|neoclassical]] gardens such as the grotto at [[Stourhead]].<ref name="Barkan1999">{{cite book|author=Leonard Barkan|title=Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPMHJVKLc74C&pg=PA237|year=1999|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-08911-0|pages=237–8}}</ref><ref name="MacDougall1994">{{cite book|author=Elisabeth B. MacDougall|title=Fountains, Statues, and Flowers: Studies in Italian Gardens of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xav4T6QU5n8C&pg=PA37|date=January 1994|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks|isbn=978-0-88402-216-9|pages=37–56}}</ref><ref name="Gross1992">{{cite book|author=Kenneth Gross|title=The Dream of the Moving Statue|url=https://archive.org/details/dreamofmovingsta00gros|url-access=registration|year=1992|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-2702-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dreamofmovingsta00gros/page/170 170]–175}}</ref>