President and Fellows of Harvard College
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
© President and Fellows of Harvard College 1 of 7 © President and Fellows of Harvard College 2 of 7 © President and Fellows of Harvard College 3 of 7 © President and Fellows of Harvard College Identification and Creation Object Number 1937.53 4 of 7 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 5 of 7 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 6 of 7 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1955), p. 240, entry no. 78 Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (Thesis, Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, 219 ff.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] 7 of 7 Generated on March 14, 2017 at 02:36pm 8 of 7