Angel Holding a Candle
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09330
- Material and technique
- Bronze, black lacquer
- Author
- Niccolò Roccatagliata (c. 1559-1629)
- Dating
- Late 16th - early 17th century
- Dimensions
- 19 X 10 X 7 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This small angel holds a cornucopia in its hands, on top of which there may have originally been a flower bud where a candle might have been placed. The body is balanced on the left leg while the right is gently raised, as if dancing; as in other works of Roccatagliata, a slender band surrounds the waist and chest.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 103 p. 142; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 49; Italian Bronze Statuettes, exh. cat., London 1961, no. 173; Bronzetti Italiani del Rinascimento, exh. cat., Florence 1962, no. 168; P. Cannata in M.G. Barberini - M.S. Sconci (eds.), Guida al Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome 2009, no. 65 p. 69.