Standing Angel
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Wood sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Study room, cabinet, shelf 1
- Inventory
- PV 07480
- Material and technique
- Sculpted and carved wood, paint, gilding
- Author
- Italian School
- Dating
- 17th century
- Dimensions
- 36.7 x 11.5 x 10.5 cm.
- Origin
- Tower-Wurts Collection (1933)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
As with many wooden 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 351). This work depicts an angel standing, leaning against a column with an Ionic capital, at whose base another small head of an angel can be seen. The statuette is badly damaged, missing its hands and part of the arms, and the gilding that covered the whole object, apart from areas of flesh, has fallen off; its reverse is flat and was probably part of the cornice of an altar.
Grazia Maria Fachechi
Bibliography
Unpublished
