Dragon
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 17
- Inventory
- PV 09580
- Material and technique
- Bronze, patina
- Author
- Paduan School (Studio of Severo da Ravenna ?)
- Dating
- Early 16th century
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 11.5 x 5.5 cm.
- Origin
- Castel S. Angelo (1936); Museo delle Terme Diocleziane; Biblioteca Vallicelliana (1886); Padri Oratoriali (1662); Virginio Spada's Museo di curiosità.
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
The two deep holes in this bronze suggest it was to be used as a lamp. One is in the centre of the back, to hold the oil, and the other at the end of the tail for the wick.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
F. Hermanin, Il Palazzo di Venezia, Rome 1948, p. 299; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 7; H. R. Weihrauch, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums. Die Bildwerke in Bronze und in anderen Metallen, Augsburg 1999, no. 97, p. 72.
