Harvard Art Museums > BR51.213: Triumph of a Sea Goddess Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Triumph of a Sea Goddess (Peter Flötner) , BR51.213,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 08, 2023, https://hvrd.art/o/299863. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number BR51.213 People Peter Flötner, German (Thurgau, Switzerland c. 1485 - 1546 Nuremberg, Germany) Title Triumph of a Sea Goddess Classification Sculpture Work Type figure, sculpture Date c. 1530 Culture German Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299863 Physical Descriptions Medium Soapstone with gilt bronze band Dimensions diameter: 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund Accession Year 1951 Object Number BR51.213 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Charles L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture, 1280-1800, the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 22, cat. no. 33 pp. 79-80, repr. as pl. XXXIV Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 16, repr. p. 53 as fig. 82 Charles Werner Haxthausen, "The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: the Germanic Tradition", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 403-413, p. 411 Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), pp. 13, 93, repr. p. 93 Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1986), cat. no. 252, repr. Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 351, pp. 296-297, repr. Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997 Barbara Dienst, Der Kosmos des Peter Flötner: Eine Bildwelt der Renaissance in Deutschland, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Munich, 2002), p. 86 note 233, fig. 24 Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 224 Thomas Schauerte and Manuel Teget-Welz, ed., Peter Flötner: Renaissance in Nürnberg, exh. cat., Michael Imhof Verlag and Museen der Stadt Nürnberg (Petersberg, 2014), p. 17, cat. no. 25, repr. Exhibition History Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 04/08/1986 - 06/22/1986; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 07/24/1986 - 09/28/1986 Subjects and Contexts Collection Highlights Google Art Project Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
