1995.60: Saint Ambrose

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1995.60

People

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)

Title

Saint Ambrose

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1660

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/226889

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta with remains of gilding and metallic paint

Dimensions

36.2 x 26.5 x 19 cm (14 1/4 x 10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

?Chigi family, Rome, by 1770. Unknown antiquarian dealer, Via del Babuino, Rome, sold; Valerio Mariani, Rome, by 1940; inherited by his sons, Andrea and Luca Mariani, Rome, sold; [to Peter Laverack, European Fine Art, London, 1995, sold]; to Fogg Art Museum through Richard Norton, Richard Norton Memorial, William M. Prichard Memorial and Louise Haskell Daly Funds.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton, Richard Norton Memorial, William M. Prichard Memorial and Louise Haskell Daly Funds

Accession Year

1995

Object Number

1995.60

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Valerio Mariani, "Bernini e la 'Cattedra di San Pietro'", Bollettino d'arte del Ministero della educazione nazionale, La Libreria dello Stato (Rome, Italy, 1931), pp. 161-172
• Roberto Battaglia, La Cattedra Berniniana di San Pietro, Reale Istituto di Studi Romani (Rome, 1943), p. 56 and note 1
• Valerio Mariani, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Societa Editrice Napoletana (Naples, 1974), p. 96; fig. 52
• Sergej O. Androsov, Alle origini di Canova: le terrecotte della collezione Farsetti, exh. cat., Marsilio Editore (Venice, Italy, 1991), p. 62, no. 18
• Kendra Roth, "The Technical Examination of Polychrome and Gilding Layers Applied to Two Bernini Modelli" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1997), Unpublished, pp. 1-15 passim
• Mark S. Weil, "Bernini Drawings and Bozzetti for the Ponte Sant' Angelo: A New Look", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), vol. VI, no. 3, 144-150, p. 25 plate 15, pp. 116-118
• Jeannine O'Grody, "Bernini's St. Ambrose for the cathedra Petri: A Model and the Metamorphosis of a Figure", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), VI, no. 3, 133-143, pp. 133-143. p. 133, fig. 139, p. 134, figs. 141, 142
• Kendra Roth, "Decorative Coatings on the St. Longinus and St. Ambrose Modelli", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), VI, no. 3, 125-127, p. 126-127; fig. 133
• Nancy Lloyd, "Fingerprints", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), VI, No. 3, 119-124
• Tony Sigel and Eugene F. Farrell, "Technical Observations and Petrographic Analysis", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), VI, no. 3, 73-118, p. 116 plate 15 (as on p. 25), p. 116 fig. 124, p. 117 fig. 125 (X-ray), p. 118 fig. 126
• Tony Sigel, "The Clay Modeling Techniques of Gian Lorenzo Bernini", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), VI, 3, 48-72
• James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 52, repr.
• C. D. Dickerson III, Tony Sigel, Ian Wardropper, Andrea Bacchi, Tomaso Montanari, and Stephen E. Ostrow, Bernini Sculpting in Clay, exh. cat. (New York, 2012)

Exhibition History

• Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/28/1998 - 06/30/2008
• Bernini: Sculpting in Clay, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/03/2012 - 01/06/2013; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 02/03/2013 - 05/05/2013
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2019 - 05/13/2019

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