# Sea Snail [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Bronze, diameter 8 cm ## Commentary In the collections of the Renaissance period, which during the course of the 16th century developed into the famous "Kunst- und Wunderkammern" \(cabinets of art and wonders\), objects were combined which above all aroused astonishment whether they were of natural or artificial origins. The present creature is a figment of imagination in which the cast of a snail was combined with a conch in order to create a curiosity. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [A Curious Scene]() - [Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel]() - [Adoration of St Mark]() - [Allegorical Portrait of Dante]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare]() - [Altarpiece of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()