# Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JACOPO del SELLAIO]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood, gilt ornaments, 50 x 142 cm ## Commentary Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts c. 1465 Tempera on wood, gilt ornaments, 50 x 142 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In two panels in the Metropolitan Museum, <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/biagio/argonaut.html'\)" href="/html/b/biagio/argonaut.html">one by Biagio d'Antonio</a> and another by Jacopo del Sellaio, the story of Jason and the Argonauts unfolds in a continuous narrative. In the panel by Jacopo del Sellaio, Jason is charged by King Pelias to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Jason then mounts his horse and consults the centaur Chiron on Mount Pelion together with Hercules and Orpheus. In the distance is Jason's ship, the Argo. The two panels recount episodes from the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece in vivid detail. They have been considered both cassone fronts and spalliere, or wainscoting, panels. Though their dimensions are consistent with those of many cassone panels, they have independent moldings and show none of the damages characteristic of cassone panels and were, therefore, certainly designed to be installed where they would not have been kicked or accessible to children. There has been almost constant controversy about the panels' authorship since they appeared on the art market in the first years of the twentieth century. Two panels are not by the same artist; collaboration on series of panels such as these was common practice. ## Related artworks - [Cassone]() - [Coronation of Esther by Ahasuerus]() - [Esther before Ahasuerus]() - [Madonna and Child with Infant St John the Baptist and Attending Angel]() - [Nativity]() - [Saint John the Baptist]() - [St Jerome in the Wilderness]() - [St John the Baptist \(detail\)]() - [St John the Baptist]() - [The Banquet of Ahasuerus]() - [The Banquet of Vashti]() - [The Nerli Cassone]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()