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1967.32.2.b

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Pieta with Angels

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Artist

Artist Unidentified

Title

Pieta with Angels

Creation Date

n.d.

Century

17th century

Dimensions

3 1/4 in. x 2 1/4 in. (8 cm. x 5.8 cm.)

Object Type

plaquette

Creation Place

Europe, Germany

Medium and Support

bronze

Credit Line

Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1967.32.2.b

Object Description

380 PIETA WITH ANGELS, ca. 1600
In a landscape, Mary sits under the cross holding before her Christ's body, which lies on a cloth held by two angels.

A. Bronze, cast from a reworked model, 80 x 58 mm. Cut at left.
1967.32.2

B. Bronze, silvered, reworked, 81 x 64 mm. Edges damaged, traces of fastenings on the reverse.
1967.20.51

Bange and Frederiks {Dutch Silver I. The Hague, 1952, no. 117d) compare this lamentation to the series of passion scenes by Arent van Bolten (see no. 397). Composition is based on an Italian model and exists in several variations. The model could either belong to the circle of or, better, to a follower of the Abondio workshop.
Other specimens: (lead) Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum; (bronze) Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery; Basel, Historisches Museum; Berlin, Staatliche Museen; Rome, Palazzo Venezia; (silver) Brescia, Museo Civico.

Bibl.: Rizzini, Illustrazione dei civici di Brescia, Brescia 1889, no. 257; Bange, D.M., p. 132, no. 5955, pl. 30; Weber, no. 658.