St. Luke
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 17
- Inventory
- PV 09313
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural dark patina, traces of light reddish lacquer
- Author
- Jacob Cornelisz Cobaert (1530/1535 - 1615)
- Dating
- c. 1578-1582
- Dimensions
- 24 x 10 x 10.5 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
In a publication from 1996, Jennifer Montagu attributed the Tabernacle in the Roman church of San Luigi dei Francesci to Jacob Cobaert. This statue of St. Luke also seems to be by the Flemish artist. Another statue in the altarpiece that was recently acquired by Palazzo Venezia is depicted in a very similar fashion, though without his attribute, the ox. Both the St. Luke and the Tabernacle were executed at the same time, between 1578 and 1582.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), catalogue of the collection, Bergamo 1922, no. 86; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 47; J. Montagu, Gold, Silver and Bronze: Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque, London 1996, pp. 35-40, 219-222.
