Angel Holding a Candlestick
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Wood sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Study room, cabinet, shelf 1, section D
- Inventory
- PV 01140
- Material and technique
- Sculpted and carved wood, paint, gilding
- Author
- German School
- Dating
- First half of 16th century
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 20 x 13 cm.
- Origin
- Carlo Benedettini (1920)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This work, which forms a pair with its mirror image, inv. no. PV 1141, was bought privately in 1920. Originally set to the right as the viewer looks, it depicts an angel with large wings, kneeling on its left leg while holding a candlestick on the other, the upper part of which is now lost. The head looks up slightly and the expression is melancholy. Apart from the flesh tones, the work is gilded all over, on a base of bole and dates from the German Renaissance. The carving, though, is rather imprecise.
Grazia Maria Fachechi
Bibliography
Unpublished
