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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1937.62
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People
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680
Rome, Italy)
Title
Kneeling Angel
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1672
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome
Culture
Italian
Location
Level 2, Room 2520, European Art, 17th century
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
29.1 x 18.3 x 17.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
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Provenance
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. Ferri inventory 1799
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
1937.62
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. 48 no. 13, pl. XXa
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
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(New York, NY, June 4, 1938), vol. XXXVI, pp. 11-12
Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of
the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London,
England, 1955), p. 240, no. 78
Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini"
(Thesis, Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, pp.
192, 194 ff.
S. Lane Faison, Jr., A Guide to the Art Museums of New
England, Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, NY, 1958),
p. 116, fig. 10
Luigi Grassi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Edizioni dell'Ateneo
(Rome, Italy, 1962), p. 140
Irving Lavin, "Calculated Spontaneity: Bernini and the
Terracotta Sketch", Apollo (May 1978), vol. CVII, no.
195, pp. 398-405, p. 403 fig. 8; p. 404
Franco Borsi, Bernini Architetto, Electa (Milan, Italy,
1980), p. 346
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. 297-298
Maria Giulia Barberini and Carlo Gasparri, "I bozzetti ed
i modelli dei secoli XVI-XVIII della collezione di
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi", exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi
Editori (Rome, Italy, 1994), no. 33, p. 124, repr. as fig.
103
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. 22, p. 102;
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repr. in b/w p. 119 as fig 26; p. 81
James Cuno, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of
Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums/Harry N.
Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp.174-175
Andrea Bacchi, ed., Sculture del '600 a Roma,
Longanesi & Co. (Milan, Italy, 1996), pl. 189
Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames
& Hudson (London, England, 1997), pl. 362
Mark S. Weil, "Bernini Drawings and Bozzetti for the
Ponte Sant' Angelo: A New Look", Harvard University
Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
Spring 1999), vol. VI, no. 3, 144-150
Colette Czapski Hemingway, "Borghini, Félibien, and
Five Angels for the Altar of the Blessed Sacrament",
Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan
Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), vol. VI, no. 3, 151-161,
figs. 163, 169, 184, 186
Eugene F. Farrell, Henry Lie, and Suzanne M. M. Young,
"Clay Analysis", Harvard University Art Museums
Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard
University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999),
VI, 3, 39-47, pp. 42-43
Nancy Lloyd, "Fingerprints", Harvard University Art
Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
Spring 1999), VI, No. 3, 119-124
Tony Sigel, "The Clay Modeling Techniques of Gian
Lorenzo Bernini", Harvard University Art Museums
Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard
University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999),
VI, 3, 48-72
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Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Berniniana: Novità sul
regista del Barocco, Skira (Milan, 2002), pp. 70-71 and
repr. p.XLIV as fig. 54
C. D. Dickerson III, Tony Sigel, Ian Wardropper, Andrea
Bacchi, Tomaso Montanari, and Stephen E. Ostrow,
Bernini Sculpting in Clay, exh. cat. (New York, 2012)
Exhibition History
The Italian and English Renaissance, Charles Hayden
Memorial Library, Cambridge, 03/02/1958 03/20/1958
In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980
Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini from the Museum der
Bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Boston, 08/19/1982 - 10/10/1982
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, Harvard
University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/28/1998 06/30/2008
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, 10/03/2012 - 01/06/2013; Kimbell Art
Museum, Fort Worth, 02/03/2013 - 05/05/2013
32Q: 2520 Winter Garden, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 11/01/2014
Subjects and Contexts
Google Art Project
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