Bust of a Woman in Adoration
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Wood sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Study room, shelf 1, section D
- Inventory
- PV 07539/1
- Material and technique
- Sculpted wood, paint, gilding
- Author
- German School
- Dating
- 16th century
- Dimensions
- 30 x 10 x 8 cm.
- Origin
- Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
As with many wood sculptures now at Palazzo Venezia, this work also came from the collection of George Washington Wurts (1843-1928), an American diplomat, whose collection was donated by his wife Henriette Tower to the Italian state in 1933 (W 9361/2). This statuette, which forms a pair with a similar work identified with inv. no. PV 7539/2, depicts the bust of a woman with her arms folded, leaning against a pilaster. It is difficult to know the original purpose of the work, which has one hole in the head and one under the base, as well as a metal hook on the back.
Grazia Maria Fachechi
Bibliography
Unpublished
