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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.54
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Follower of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Apostle Thomas
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230466

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
26.5 x 11.5 x 9.4 cm (10 7/16 x 4 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: front of base, incised: TOMASO

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.54
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard Norton, Bernini and Other Studies in the History of Art, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1914), no. 7, p. 47, plate XIVb
  • 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
  • Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London, England, 1955), no. 78, p. 240
  • Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, 219 ff.
  • Bernini in Vaticano, De Luca Editore (Rome, Italy, 1981), p. 152
  • Irving Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, exh. cat., Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ, 1981), p. 323 fn. 2
  • Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1990), no. 78, p. 297
  • 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. 20, p. 102; repr. in b/w p. 117 as fig. 21; p. 81
  • 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

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