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.