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ECL-Bm.12:84-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.12:84-2013

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.

Content (object)

altar
bust

Dimensions

height (actual size): 481mm
width (actual size): 370mm

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)
image 147603
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