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Gli dei ritornano: I bronzi di San Casciano

11/2024 | 1460 | 166

Pages: 1162–1163

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Reviewer:

Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)

Subjects

art literature:

Exhibition catalogues

dates:

2020-2030

dates:

2020-2030

museums and institutions:

Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Italy / Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy / Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia, Reggio Calabria, Italy

subjects:

Etruscan / Bronzes / Italian sculpture / Votive images

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Gli dei ritornano: I bronzi di San Casciano Edited by Massimo Ossana and Jacopo Tabolli. 200 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Treccani Emporium, Rome, 2024), €49. ISBN 978–88–12–01165–0. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

5. Polyvisceral plaque. Etruscan or Roman, 2nd or 1st century BCE. Bronze, height 20.8 cm. (Bagno Grande, San Casciano dei Bagni).

Attributed works:

6. Detail of the ‘putto of San Cascaino dei Bagni’, showing the inscription on the right leg. Etruscan, 2nd century BCE. Bronze. (Bagno Grande, San Casciano dei Bagni; photograph the author).

Attributed works:

7. Apollo / Aplu. Etruscan, 2nd century BCE. Bronze, height 63 cm. (Bagno Grande, San Casciano dei Bagni).

Article

A tale of two fragments: a Sostratos cameo reconstructed

03/2020 | 1404 | 162

Pages: 181-187

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Author:

Gennaioli, Riccardo (Gennaioli, Riccardo)

Author:

Gradel, Ittai (Gradel, Ittai)

Subjects

artists:

Sostratos / Cellini, Benvenuto

dates:

0099-0001 BC / 1850-1869

media:

Cameos

museums and institutions:

Museo Archeologico, Florence, Italy

museums and institutions:

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy

styles:

Hellenistic

subjects:

Fragments / Reconstructions / Ariadne / Dionysos / Centaurs / Goldsmiths / Medici family

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Fragment of a cameo, by Sostratos. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, 3.1 by 2.1 cm. excluding the later setting. (Private collection, London).

Attributed works:

10. Dionysus (or Ariadne?) in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later, eighteenth-century setting. Sardonyx, 3.1 by 2.3 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).

Attributed works:

2. Fragment of a cameo, by Sostratos. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, width 5.5 cm maximum, excluding the later restoration. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence).

Attributed works:

3. The cameo shown in Fig.2, photographed with transmitted light.

Attributed works:

4. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.2.

Attributed works:

5. Reverse of the cameo shown in Fig.1.

Attributed works:

6. Scans of the fragments shown in Figs.1 and 2 combined, showing the outline of the original cameo, presuming an oval shape. The resulting original size would have been approx. 6.4 by 4.6 cm.

Western art unattributed:

11. Dionysus and Ariadne in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later setting. Sardonyx, 3 by 2.5 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence).

Western art unattributed:

7. Fragment of a cameo, with the roughly original outline of the complete cameo restored, presuming a regular oval shape. Hellenistic, mid- to late 1st century BC. Sardonyx, 2.6 by 2 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples).

Western art unattributed:

8. Triumph of Dionysus and Ariadne. Roman cameo in later setting. Sardonyx, 6 by 5.5 cm. (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris).

Western art unattributed:

9. Dionysus (or Ariadne?) in a chariot pulled by two centaurs. Roman cameo in later, eighteenth-century setting. Sardonyx, 4.2 by 2.7 cm. (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).

Article

How Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio’s collection of statues entered the Farnese collection

01/2016 | 1354 | 158

Pages: 004-009

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Author:

Bonavita, Andrea (Bonavita, Andrea)

Subjects

collectors and dealers:

Trivulzio, Agostino / Farnese family

museums and institutions:

Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy / Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy

subjects:

Sculpture / Busts / Statues / Antiquities / Marbles / Roman (ancient) sculpture / Acquisitions / Collections, Private / Collections, Public / Provenance

Illustrations

Attributed works:

10. Telamon and stucco decoration, by Giovanni Maria della Stella and workshop. c.1535-40 (Loggia of Villa Trivulzio, Rome)

Attributed works:

12. Bacchus in aedibus Farnesianis, by Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri. Engraving. (Plate 77 in Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri's Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae tertius et quartus liber, Rome 1594)

Attributed works:

4. Alpheus in Arethusae fontem profluens in aedibus Farnesianis, by Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri. Engraving. (Plate 63 in Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri's Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae tertius et quartus liber, Rome 1594)

Attributed works:

7. Fauni cuiusdam Simulachrum e marmore exculptum miri artificis opus Romae in novis aedibus Farnesianis, by Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri. Engraving. (Plate 81 in Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri's Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae tertius et quartus liber, Rome 1594)

Western art unattributed:

1. Bust of a river god, Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

11. Colossal Antinous-Bacchus. Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

2. Bust of a river god, Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

3. Bust of a river god, Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

5. Boy on a dolphin. Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

6. Pan and Daphnis. Roman, with restoration, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

8. Bust of Hadrian. Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Western art unattributed:

9. Bust of Hadrian with chlamys. Roman, with restorations, 2nd century AD (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

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