Turtles

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 16

Inventory

PV 09256

Material and technique

Bronze, natural brown patina, traces of black lacquer

Author

Paduan School

Dating

Early 16th century

Dimensions

5.1 x 13.1 x 6.5 cm.

Origin

Barsanti Collection (1934)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

There is a natural, very beautiful patina on this bronze. It has been skillfully fused, with mother and child cast as one piece.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 29, p. 44; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 34.