Angel (?)

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 H

Inventory

PV 01686

Material and technique

Sculpted and carved wood

Author

Italian School

Dating

16th-17th century

Dimensions

81 x 26 x 12.8 cm.

Origin

Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo (1920)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This unpublished sculpture, which came to the museum from the Museo di Castel Sant’Angelo in 1920, is in such poor condition (having lost almost all its pigments and suffered serious losses, including the arms, wings, feet and part of the drapery) that it is impossible to reasonably determine its iconography or style. One could only hypothesise that it is an angel produced in Italy in the 16th or 17th century.

Grazia Maria Fachechi

Bibliography

Unpublished