Interrupted Concert
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 17
- Inventory
- PV 09295
- Material and technique
- Bronze, natural dark patina, traces of light black lacquer
- Author
- Francesco Bertos (1678-1741)
- Dating
- Late 17th-first half of 18th century
- Dimensions
- 8 x 11 x 15 cm.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This small group has been tentatively attributed, by Pollak, to Ferdinando Tacca, with reference to Tacca’s Bacchino fountain in Prato. Less convincingly, Santangelo believed the technique to indicate that it was of Florentine origin. However, Avery's attribution of this large and imaginative sculpture to Francesco Bertos is more plausible. The latter was responsible for many bronze group sculptures representing nude putti within shell-like baths.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), catalogue of the collection, Bergamo 1922, p. 99, no. 68; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 57; C. Avery, The triumph of motion: Francesco Bertos (1678-1741) and the art of sculpture, Turin 2008, p. 261.
