Angerona
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 16
- Inventory
- PV 09261
- Material and technique
- Bronze, patina
- Author
- Paduan or Venetian School
- Dating
- 15th century
- Dimensions
- 17.2 cm. h.
- Origin
- Barsanti Collection (1934)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
In both the Palazzo Venezia versions (PV9261 and 9262), the so-called “Angerona” is depicted as a Greek priestess. Indeed, Pollak suggests she is dressed in Ancient Greek fashion from late antiquity. The two examples are very similar but not identical. The fusion of the casting is thin on one, thicker on the other. The first has a greenish patina, a colour which characterises bronzes that have been excavated and those “modern” forgeries or imitations. The facial features of the second are harsher and less agreeable, while its feet are bare and its dress has softer, less defined folds. Importantly, it is only on the latter that the date “1405” is inscribed, on its reverse.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, no. 34, p. 51; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La Collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 47; H. R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten: 15. - 18. Jahrhundert , Braunschweig 1967, p. 55; Götz-Mohr in H. Beck - P. C. Bol, Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, exh. cat., Frankfurt am Main 1985, no. 80, p. 385.