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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1937.53
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People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to follower of Gian Lorenzo
Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Title
The Apostle Philip
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian?
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
26 x 5 x 9 cm (10 1/4 x 1 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
inscription: base, Italian
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Provenance
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward
D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was the curator of the
Galleria Borghese.
Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to
Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt
Purchasing and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.53
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Richard Norton, Bernini and Other Studies in the
History of Art, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY,
1914), p. 47, no. 8, plate XVa
Leonard Opdycke, "A Group of Models for Berninesque
Sculptures", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum , Fogg Art
Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1938), vol. VII, no. 2,
p. 29
"Bernini Bozzetti for America: Sketches by the Baroque
Genius for the Fogg Art Museum", Art News, Art News
(New York, NY, June 4, 1938), vol. XXXVI, pp. 11-12
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Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of
the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London,
England, 1955), p. 240, entry no. 78
Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini"
(Thesis, Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, 219 ff.
Luigi Grassi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Edizioni dell'Ateneo
(Rome, Italy, 1962), p. 140
Bernini in Vaticano, De Luca Editore (Rome, Italy, 1981),
p. 152
Irving Lavin, Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini, from the
Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, exh. cat., The
Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, 1981),
p. 323 fn. 2
Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman
Baroque, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1990), p. 297 no. 78
Laura Falaschi, "Il Ciborio del Santissimo Sacramento
in San Pietro in Vaticano Secondo, i designi e i progetti
di Gian Lorenzo Bernini da Urbano VIII Barberini a
Clemente X Altiers", L'ultimo Bernini 1665-1680 : nuovi
argomenti, documenti e immagini, ed. Valentino
Martinelli, Quasar (Rome, Italy, 1996), no. 19, p. 102;
repr. in b/w p. 117 as fig. 20; p. 81
Kendra Roth, "The Technical Examination of
Polychrome and Gilding Layers Applied to Two Bernini
Modelli" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus
Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1997),
Unpublished, pp. 1-15 passim
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
[email protected]
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