Hexagonal Base
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09280
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural patina, traces of opaque black varnish
- Author
- Northern Italian School
- Dating
- Late 15th century
- Dimensions
- 7x6.5x6.5 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
The small base is decorated with three bas-reliefs loosely inspired by antiquity. Very similar bacchic figures appear on numerous jewels from antiquity and on bases of large Roman marble candelabra. Such bases were created during the Classical period, in Riccio’s Paduan school and in the Northern Italian school of the late 15th century. Numerous bases, both hexagonal and octagonal, were later used for Renaissance bronzes.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
E. Molinier, Les bronzes de la Renaissance: les plaquettes; catalogue raisonné, Paris 1886, nos. 25-28 pp. 13-15; F. Goldschmidt, Italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, Berlin 1914, no. 231 p. 52; L. Planiscig, Die Estensische Kunstsammlung. Skulpturen und Plastiken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Vienna 1919, nos. 258-259, pp. 164-165; E. F. Bange, Italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, Berlin 1922, nos. 104 and 417, pp. 15 and 57; L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), catalogue of the collection, Bergamo 1922, no. 53 p.7 5; U. Middeldorf - O. Goetz, Medals and plaquettes from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collections, Chicago 1944, no. 216, p. 32; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 48; M. Leithe-Jasper, Italianische Kleinplastichen, Zeichnungen und Musik der Renaissance, Waffen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Vienna 1976, nos. 226-27, pp. 188-89; P. Cannata, Rilievi e plachette dal XV al XVIII secolo, exh. cat., Rome 1982, n. 18, pp. 46-47.
