Candlestick

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 16

Inventory

PV 09270

Material and technique

Bronze, black lacquer

Author

European School

Dating

16th-19th century (?)

Dimensions

34 cm.; base 17 cm wide

Origin

Barsanti Collection (1934)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

Santangelo noted that the workmanship of this candlestick was similar to the Rinfrescatoio in the Museo Artistico Industriale at Palazzo Barberini in Rome, signed by Alfonso Alberghetti and dated 1572. It is questionable, though, that this is by the same artist, given that there are doubts over its authenticity.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 43, p. 60; A. Santagelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 34 fig. 61; Italian Bronze Statuettes, exh. cat., London 1961, no. 176.