Angel
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Wood sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Study room, cabinet, shelf 1, section E
- Inventory
- PV 07614/2
- Material and technique
- Sculpted and carved wood, paint, gilding
- Author
- German School
- Dating
- 16th century
- Dimensions
- 16 x 33.2 x 7 cm.
- Origin
- Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This unpublished statuette, which came from the Wurts collection (inv. W377/1), depicts an angel, and forms a pair with its mirror image, inventory no. PV 7614/1. The angel, whose ringlets of hair brush against its shoulders, ought to hold a scroll, as the arched position of the body and the arrangement of the hands suggest; it was perhaps originally intended to hang as part of an altarpiece, as the flat reverse side, with a hook, indicates. The rather disproportionate rendering of the figure and the simple modelling suggest it was produced in an artisanal workshop in 16th century Germany.
Grazia Maria Fachechi
Bibliography
Unpublished
