Saccomazzone Players

1. Alfred Spero, London, 1955 [according to Bethe 1958]; sold to the University of Kansas Museum of Art, now the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1955 and accessioned as 1955.81; given to Edward Maser (died 1988), director of the University of Kansas Museum of Art, on his departure for the University of Chicago in 1961; Edward and Inge Maser, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago by Inge Maser, 2008.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Collects, 20 September - 27 October, 1963.
• Beijing, Palace Museum, Garden Cultures of China and the West, Apr. 1–June 30, 2025; Suzhou Museum, July 19–Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025–Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23–July 29, 2026 [Beijing, Ningbo Museum and Hong Kong only].
• Beijing, Palace Museum, Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, Apr. 1–June 30, 2025, cat. 90; Suzhou China, Suzhou Museum, July 19–Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo, China, Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025–Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23–July 29, 2026 (Beijing, Ningbo and Hong Kong only).

• Hellmuth Bethe, “The Saccomazzone Groups of Florence,” The Register of the Museum of Art of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, no. 10 (June, 1958), pp. 9 (ill.), 11-12.
• Hans R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten, 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 235, 507, n. 273.
• C[harles] A[very] in Objects for a ‘Wunderkammer’, exhib. cat., London, P. and D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, 1981, ed. Alvar González-Palacios, p. 162, under no. 82.
• Br[ook] in Il seicento fioentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exhib. cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1986, p. 433, under cat. 4.13.
• Repertorio della scultura fiorentina del seicento e settecento, ed. Giovanni Pratesi, Turin, 1993, vol. 1, p. 89, vol. 2, pl. 341.
• Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, exh. cat. (Beijing: Gu gong chu ban she, 2025), 147 (ill.), cat. 90.

Bust of a Youth (Saint John the Baptist)

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Naumachia in the Courtyard of Palazzo Pitti

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Cupid Overcoming Pan

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Three Youths in Prayer

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The Holy Family

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Study of a Kneeling Saint

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The Closing of the Red Sea

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Dead Christ Held by Angels

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