Man Holding a Coat-of-Arms

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Wood sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Store

Inventory

PV 07305

Material and technique

Sculpted and carved tilia wood, paint, gilding

Author

German School (Nuremberg?)

Dating

First quarter of 16th century

Dimensions

56.5 x 25 x 14.5 cm.

Origin

Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This work, which came from the Wurts collection (W 152), depicts a masculine figure, a young man with blue eyes and blond mid-length hair; his head leans slightly to the right, with a serene expression and he holds a quartered coat-of-arms in his hands (in the first and the fourth a black eagle is depicted on a gold background, and in the second and third a gold crown on a black background). The work would probably have hung above the entrance of a noble house or been part of an altar. From a stylistic point of view, the work can be placed in the figurative culture of south Germany (perhaps Nuremberg) in the early 16th century and seems to share the same characteristics of the figure in another work at Palazzo Venezia, with inv. no. PV 7307. Technical-scientific analysis carried out in 2009 by IVALSA-CNR in Florence identified the wood used as tilia (Tilia sp.).

Grazia Maria Fachechi 

Bibliography

Unpublished