Allegorical Figure
Bartolomeo Ammanati · c. 1540–c. 1545
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What the record supports
"Allegorical Figure" is a bronze statuette by Bartolomeo Ammanati, dated c. 1540–c. 1545. It measures 32.4 cm (12 3/4 in.) in height and is classified as a statuette within the Art Institute of Chicago's Painting and Sculpture of Europe department. Ammanati (1511-1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor.
The statuette was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926 from Arnold Seligman Rey & Co., who held it by 1926. It was originally attributed to Alessandro Vittoria at the time of its acquisition. The "Allegorical Figure" has been exhibited once, in "Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections" at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972, without a catalogue.
Its attribution to Ammanati is supported by later scholarly literature, including an article by Ian Wardropper in 2001 and subsequent discussions in the *Burlington Magazine*. The Art Institute of Chicago also holds another work by Ammanati, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," while The Metropolitan Museum of Art has several works associated with him, including "A River God" and "Justice." No auction prices are provided in the supplied data.
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Provenance
Ownership history
- Arnold Seligman Rey & Co., by 1926, as Alessandro Vittoria; sold to the Art Institute, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Small Bronzes from Chicago Collections, July 22–Oct. 8, 1972 [no cat.].
Literature
Published references
- Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, "A Bronze by Allesandro Vittoria," 20 (1926), pp. 80-81, ill.
- Ian Wardropper, "An Allegorical Bronze Statuette Newly Attributed to Ammanati," in Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, Studies in the History of Art, Symposium Papers, 39, ed. Debra Pincus (New Haven and London, 2001), pp. 105-21, figs. 1, 2, 13, 14, 16.
- Manfred Leithe-Jasper, review of Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, ed. Debra Pincus, in Burlington Magazine 144 (2002), p. 761.
- Cyril Humphris, "Letters to the Editor. Bartolomeo Ammanati and Danese Cattene" in Burlington Magazine 145 (2003), p. 220.
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand
A River God (recto); Sketches for the Vestibule of the Laurenziana, Florence (verso)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Justice
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hercules Colossus at Padua (L'Ercole di casa Benavides a Padova), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cassone
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fontana di Mercurio nel Giardino del Gran Duca di Toscana (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 3, 'Le Fontane ne' Palazzi di Roma' (plate 9)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Nymphaeum of the Villa di Papa Giulio, Rome
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Art Institute of Chicago
Cupid Chastised
Art Institute of Chicago
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