1937.73: Four Members of the Cornaro Family

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.73

People

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

Title

Four Members of the Cornaro Family

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

c. 1647-49

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio, Rome

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230574

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Dimensions

31.2 x 40 cm (12 5/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. Ferri inventory 1799
Pacetti inventory 1802
Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome, Italy, Sold to Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee, 1905. Piancastelli was the curator of the Galleria Borghese.
Mrs. Edward D. (Mary B.) Brandegee, 1905, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds

Accession Year

1937

Object Number

1937.73

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Richard Norton, Bernini and Other Studies in the History of Art, The Macmillan Company (New York, NY, 1914), p. 47 no. 9, pl. XVI
• Leonard Opdycke, "A Group of Models for Berninesque Sculptures", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1938), vol. VII, no. 2, p. 29
• "Bernini Bozzetti for America: Sketches by the Baroque Genius for the Fogg Art Museum", Art News, Art News (New York, NY, June 4, 1938), vol. XXXVI, pp. 11-12
• Rudolf Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the sculptor of the Roman Baroque [1st ed.], Phaidon Press (London, England, 1955), cat. no. 48 207-209
• Irving Lavin, "The Bozzetti of Gianlorenzo Bernini" (PhD diss., Harvard University, 1955), Unpublished, p. 73 f.
• Hans Kauffmann, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini: Die figurlichen Kompositionen, Gebr. Mann Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1970), p. 166 fn. 139; p. 168 fn. 154, pl. 81
• Irving Lavin, Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, 1980), p. 102, p. 201; vol 2, pl. 226
• Maria Giulia Barberini and Carlo Gasparri, "I bozzetti ed i modelli dei secoli XVI-XVIII della collezione di Bartolomeo Cavaceppi", exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1994), no. 71, pp. 130-131, repr. as fig. 119
• Andrea Bacchi, ed., Sculture del '600 a Roma, Longanesi & Co. (Milan, Italy, 1996), pl. 159
• Charles Avery, Bernini, Genius of the Baroque, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1997), fig. 89
• Eugene F. Farrell, Henry Lie, and Suzanne M. M. Young, "Clay Analysis", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, ed. Ivan Gaskell and Henry Lie, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 1999), VI, 3, 39-47, pp. 42, 44
• 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, "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
• William Barcham, Grand in Design: the life and career of Federico Cornaro, prince of the Church, patriarch of Venice and patron of the arts, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice, Italy, 2001), repr. p. 509 as fig. 56
• Tony Sigel, "The Clay Modeling Techniques of Melchiorre Cafà: A Preliminary Assessment", Melchiorre Cafà: Maltese Genius of the Roman Baroque, Midsea Books (Valetta, Malta, 2006), pp. 161-233, p. 229
• 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)
• Evonne Levy and Carolina Mangone, ed., Material Bernini, Routledge / Taylor & Francis (London, 2016), p. 132, repr., fig. 6.6

Exhibition History

• In Memoriam: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1980 - 10/15/1980
• Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 08/19/1982 - 10/10/1982
• 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

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