Dove of the Holy Spirit

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Wood sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Store

Inventory

s.n.

Material and technique

Sculpted and carved wood, paint, gilding, metal

Author

Roman School

Dating

18th century

Dimensions

20 x 18.5 x 7 cm.

Origin

Gorga Collection (1948)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This small statuette came from the collection of the opera singer Gennaro Evangelista (called Evan) Gorga, which was given to the Italian state in 1948 and was intended for the most part for the Palazzo Venezia museum. It depicts the Holy Spirit as a dove and is a fragment of a larger work, which cannot be identified. The work is in poor condition, having lost the polychromy almost entirely as well as the bird’s beak and the tip of its wings.

Grazia Maria Fachechi 

Bibliography

Unpublished