Allegorical Female Figure

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 10781

Material and technique

Bronze, natural brown patina, glossy black lacquer, base fused together with statue

Author

Venetian School

Dating

Mid-16th century

Dimensions

29.1 x 14 x 10 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

Pollak and Santangelo compared this bronze to another depicting an Allegory of Love, which can be found in a number of museums and private collections in Vienna, Berlin and Washington (see PV 9320). The two versions of the Allegory are, though, by different artists.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 1, no. 12; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p.17.