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Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Half-Kneeling Angel, 1673-1674
Sculpture
Italian
, 17th century
Creation Place:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Terracotta
29.8 x 18.3 x 19.4 cm (11 3/4 x 7 3/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
, 1937.65
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
, Provenance
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. Ferri inventory 1799
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was the curator of the Galleria Borghese.
Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was the curator of the Galleria Borghese.
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. 49 no. 21, pl. XXIVb
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Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini", (Thesis, Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 216 f.
Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London, England, 1955), p. 240, no. 78
Luigi Grassi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Edizioni dell'Ateneo (Rome, Italy, 1962), p. 140
Irving Lavin, "Calculated Spontaneity: Bernini and the Terracotta Sketch", Apollo (May 1978), vol. CVII, no. 195, pp. 398-405, p. 403, fig. 7
Franco Borsi, Bernini Architetto, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1980), p. 346
Irving Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, 1981), p. 323, fn 2
Maria Giulia Barberini and Carlo Gasparri, "I bozzetti ed i modelli dei secoli XVI-XVIII della collezione di Bartolomeo Cavaceppi", exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1994), nos. 48-50, p. 126; repr. as fig. 109
Laura Falaschi, "Il Ciborio del Santissimo Sacramento in San Pietro in Vaticano Secondo, i designi e i progetti di Gian Lorenzo Bernini da Urbano VIII Barberini a Clemente X Altiers", L'ultimo Bernini 1665-1680 : nuovi argomenti, documenti e immagini, ed. Valentino Martinelli, Quasar (Rome, Italy, 1996), no. 25, p. 103; repr. in b/w p. 118 as fig. 24; p. 81
Andrea Bacchi, ed., Sculture del '600 a Roma, Longanesi & and Co. (Milan, Italy, 1996), pl. 188
Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & and Hudson (London, England, 1997), fig. 141
James Fenton, "The Great Bernini", The New York Review of Books (New York, NY, 1998), p. 24
Colette Czapski Hemingway, "Borghini, Félibien, and Five Angels for the Altar of the Blessed Sacrament", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), vol. VI, no. 3
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. 216 f.
Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London, England, 1955), p. 240, no. 78
Luigi Grassi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Edizioni dell'Ateneo (Rome, Italy, 1962), p. 140
Irving Lavin, "Calculated Spontaneity: Bernini and the Terracotta Sketch", Apollo (May 1978), vol. CVII, no. 195, pp. 398-405, p. 403, fig. 7
Franco Borsi, Bernini Architetto, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1980), p. 346
Irving Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, exh. cat., The Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, 1981), p. 323, fn 2
Maria Giulia Barberini and Carlo Gasparri, "I bozzetti ed i modelli dei secoli XVI-XVIII della collezione di Bartolomeo Cavaceppi", exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1994), nos. 48-50, p. 126; repr. as fig. 109
Laura Falaschi, "Il Ciborio del Santissimo Sacramento in San Pietro in Vaticano Secondo, i designi e i progetti di Gian Lorenzo Bernini da Urbano VIII Barberini a Clemente X Altiers", L'ultimo Bernini 1665-1680 : nuovi argomenti, documenti e immagini, ed. Valentino Martinelli, Quasar (Rome, Italy, 1996), no. 25, p. 103; repr. in b/w p. 118 as fig. 24; p. 81
Andrea Bacchi, ed., Sculture del '600 a Roma, Longanesi & and Co. (Milan, Italy, 1996), pl. 188
Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & and Hudson (London, England, 1997), fig. 141
James Fenton, "The Great Bernini", The New York Review of Books (New York, NY, 1998), p. 24
Colette Czapski Hemingway, "Borghini, Félibien, and Five Angels for the Altar of the Blessed Sacrament", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), vol. VI, no. 3
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