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Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Allegorical Figure in Relief, 1630
Alternate Title: Relief with helmeted female figure
Sculpture
, Figurine
Italian
, 17th century
Creation Place:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Terracotta
27 x 25.7 x 11.4 cm (10 5/8 x 10 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
, 1937.75
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
, Provenance
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905.
Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
Bibliography
Richard Norton, Bernini and Other Studies in the History of Art, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1914), p. 46 no. 1, pl. XI
Leonard Opdycke, "A Group of Models for Berninesque Sculptures", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1938), vol. VII, no. 2, p. 29
"Bernini Bozzetti for America: Sketches by the Baroque Genius for the Fogg Art Museum", Art News, Art News (New York, NY, June 4, 1938), vol. XXXVI, pp. 11-12
Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini", (Thesis, Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 67 f.
Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London, England, 1955), p. 191, cat. no. 26
Irving Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, 1981), p. 76 fn. 10
Irving Lavin, "Bernini's Memorial Plaque for Carlo Barberini", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1983), vol. XLII, no. 1, p. 6-10, p. 10 fig. 7
Olga Raggio, "Bernini and the Collection of Cardinal Flavio Chigi", Apollo (1983), vol. CXVII, p. 370 fig. 5; p. 372
Yves Bonnefoy, Rome 1630: l'horizon du premier baroque, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1994), repr. p. 22 as fig. 13
Andrea Bacchi, ed., Sculture del '600 a Roma, Longanesi & and Co. (Milan, Italy, 1996), pl. 133
Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & and Hudson (London, England, 1997), p. 255, pl. 370
Tony Sigel, "The Clay Modeling Techniques of Melchiorre Cafà: A Preliminary Assessment", Melchiorre Cafà: Maltese Genius of the Roman Baroque, Midsea Books (Valetta, Malta, 2006), pp. 161-233, p. 229
Gaile Robinson, "Super models. For years, a curator shaped and molded a dream exhibit: a collection of terra-cotta 'sketches' by 17th-century master sculptor Bernini", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1A, 4E-7E, Sunday, February 3, 2013, p. 5E, reproduced
Leonard Opdycke, "A Group of Models for Berninesque Sculptures", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1938), vol. VII, no. 2, p. 29
"Bernini Bozzetti for America: Sketches by the Baroque Genius for the Fogg Art Museum", Art News, Art News (New York, NY, June 4, 1938), vol. XXXVI, pp. 11-12
Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini", (Thesis, Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 67 f.
Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London, England, 1955), p. 191, cat. no. 26
Irving Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, 1981), p. 76 fn. 10
Irving Lavin, "Bernini's Memorial Plaque for Carlo Barberini", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1983), vol. XLII, no. 1, p. 6-10, p. 10 fig. 7
Olga Raggio, "Bernini and the Collection of Cardinal Flavio Chigi", Apollo (1983), vol. CXVII, p. 370 fig. 5; p. 372
Yves Bonnefoy, Rome 1630: l'horizon du premier baroque, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1994), repr. p. 22 as fig. 13
Andrea Bacchi, ed., Sculture del '600 a Roma, Longanesi & and Co. (Milan, Italy, 1996), pl. 133
Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & and Hudson (London, England, 1997), p. 255, pl. 370
Tony Sigel, "The Clay Modeling Techniques of Melchiorre Cafà: A Preliminary Assessment", Melchiorre Cafà: Maltese Genius of the Roman Baroque, Midsea Books (Valetta, Malta, 2006), pp. 161-233, p. 229
Gaile Robinson, "Super models. For years, a curator shaped and molded a dream exhibit: a collection of terra-cotta 'sketches' by 17th-century master sculptor Bernini", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1A, 4E-7E, Sunday, February 3, 2013, p. 5E, reproduced
Exhibition History
In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2007 - 12/15/2007
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/03/2012 - 01/06/2013; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 02/03/2013 - 05/05/2013