Deacon

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Wood sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Store

Inventory

s.n.

Material and technique

Sculpted wood, paint, glass

Author

Roman School

Dating

18th century

Dimensions

69 x 33 x 19 cm.

Origin

Gorga Collection (until 1948)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This work came from the collection of the opera singer Gennaro Evangelista (called Evan) Gorga, which was given to the Italian state in 1948 and was intended for the most part for the Palazzo Venezia museum. Identified by the number 343 in Gorga’s collection, the sculpture depicts a young man in sacred vestments, wearing a dalmatica, with red plant-like decorations, over a yellow undergarment, which has a rhomboid pattern. It is difficult to surmise the origins of the work, which is in poor condition; it is poorly painted and even with the insertion of glass eyes, in an attempt to be naturalistic, it evinces a rather simplified degree of modelling that renders the typical forms of 18th century Roman sculpture in more folkloric fashion.

Grazia Maria Fachechi 

Bibliography

Unpublished