Candlestick Held by Three Kneeling men
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 17
- Inventory
- PV 10878
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural dark brown patina, traces of black lacquer
- Author
- Venetian School (Imitator of the Roccatagliata)
- Dating
- 17th century
- Dimensions
- 23 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm.
- Origin
- Auriti Collection (1963)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
The three kneeling youths in this candlestick, which is imaginatively but hastily executed, are copied from Roccatagliata’s characterizations of childhood. The faces of the three children that decorate the shaft, which is the most precise and effective part of the bronze, have been faithfully reproduced from other works of Roccatagliata.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 52; N. Penny, Catalogue of European sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the present day, Oxford 1992, I, pp. 301-302.
