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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.50
People
Orazio Marinali, Italian (Bassano, Italy 1643 - 1720 Vicenza, Italy)
Title
Personification of Water
Other Titles
Alternate Title: River God
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1710
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227749

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
35.6 x 15 x 12.2 cm (14 x 5 7/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: incised on back of base: OM [in monogram]
  • inscription: back of base, graphite, handwritten: 16[th]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
George Northrup, Boston, MA, sold by his estate; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Reproduction only], "Some Recent Acquisitions", Fogg Art Museum Acquisitions, 1965, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1966)., p. 72, repr. in b/w
  • Kendra Roth, "The Technical Examination of Polychrome and Gilding Layers Applied to Two Bernini Modelli" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1997), Unpublished, pp. 1-15 passim

Exhibition History

  • In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980

Verification Level

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