Prudence

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 09301

Material and technique

Bronze, opaque lacquer

Author

Bolognese School

Dating

18th century

Dimensions

28 x 40 x 14 cm. (low, narrow base fused as one piece with the statue)

Origin

Barsanti Collection (1934)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This statue was attributed by Pollak to Massimiliano Soldani. More recently, Santangelo attributed it to an artist working in a style very similar to that of Mazza around 1700. The way in which the bronze was sculpted suggests that it was made in Bologna in the first half of the 17th century. Some simplifications in the moulding as well as the formal and aristocratic figure profile suggest the hand of one of Mazza's immediate successors, such as Angelo Gabriello Piò, although we possess no other works in bronze by him.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 74 p. 108, pl. XLV; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 52.