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Object belonging
One's own
Category
Bronze sculpture
City
Rome
Location
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
Specific location
Room 17
Inventory
PV 10792
Material and technique
Bronze, natural brown patina, dark-brown lacquer
Author
attributed to Francesco Bertos (1678-1741)
Dating
Late 17th-early 18th century
Dimensions
12.5 x 6 x 5 cm.
Origin
Auriti Collection (1963)
Image copyright
SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

Contrasting views have been put forward regarding the authorship of this work. Planiscig, in the catalogue of the Auriti Collection, attributes to the bronze to an Italo-Flemish artist of the 17th century, noting that it recalled the small group compositions by Duquesnoy. Santangelo highlighted it as a work of exceptional skill, attributing it to an anonymous Venetian artist of the late 16th century. While Santangelo may be right that the bronze was produced in Venice, it is in fact little more than a bozzetto, or model: there is only an approximate level of modelling, the gestures are not emphasized and the facial expressions are difficult to define. Avery has recently stressed that this bronze, together with some others in private collections, ought to be attributed to Bertos and be considered as bozzetti.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 21; C. Avery, The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos (1678 - 1741) and the Art of Sculpture, Turin 2008, p. 267.

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