ECL-Bm.12:83-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.12:83-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Funerary altar
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
BM 12 nos. 82,83,84 are catalogued together as drawings of the same altar
Other number
Fa 3 no. 5
Description
Content (description)
82: front. In the centre is a large panel holding an inscription. Around the panel is a border of floral scroll rising from a clump of acanthus leaves at bottom centre. There are birds and lizards here and there. The inscription reads: DIS MANIBUS/ C TELEGENI/ OPTATI L ANTHI/ VIATORIS QUAESTORI/AB AERARIO ET/ SCRIBAE LIBRARI QUAESTORI/ TRIUM DECURIARUM.
83: back.All of the back is occupied by a pedimented doorway standing on four steps. At each side a pilaster, decorated with a floral candelabrum, supports an entablature of plain mouldings and the pediment, in which are a patera, simpulum, dolphin, oenochoe and boukranion. Sphinxes with outspread wings sit over the pilasters. Between the pilasters is the double door, each leaf divided into two panels in which are lion heads with rings in their mouths.
84: side. In the centre stands a laurel tree with berries and crinkled leaves. in its branches are three birds and a snail. At the foot of the tree a stork with outspread wings eyes a worm emerging from a fleshless boukranion. On left a stork siezes the tail of a lizard which is running up the tree trunk.
83: back.All of the back is occupied by a pedimented doorway standing on four steps. At each side a pilaster, decorated with a floral candelabrum, supports an entablature of plain mouldings and the pediment, in which are a patera, simpulum, dolphin, oenochoe and boukranion. Sphinxes with outspread wings sit over the pilasters. Between the pilasters is the double door, each leaf divided into two panels in which are lion heads with rings in their mouths.
84: side. In the centre stands a laurel tree with berries and crinkled leaves. in its branches are three birds and a snail. At the foot of the tree a stork with outspread wings eyes a worm emerging from a fleshless boukranion. On left a stork siezes the tail of a lizard which is running up the tree trunk.
Content (object)
altar
bust
bust
Dimensions
height (actual size): 482mm
width (actual size): 376mm
width (actual size): 376mm
Inscription
Villa Medici No. 8 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left
Materials & techniques note
red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Mansuelli (I ; no. 212)
• Altmann (no. 133)
• Altmann (no. 133)
