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ECL-Bn.2:22/1-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.2:22/1-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Funerary altar

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

From the Palazzo Barberini
Was Fa 2 no.144
Bn 22.1 and 23.2 are catalogued together being drawings of different views of the same altar.

Other number

Fa 3 no. 144

Description

Content (description)

22: front and back. A garland of oak leaves and acorns hangs from the horns of bearded satyr-heads at the top corners. At each bottom corner an eagle with outspread wings stands on a projecting rock. Between them a dolphin floats over waves to right. Over the garland on the front is a Medusa head with flowing hair and wide-spreading wings on the temples. Over the garland on the back a nude putto flies right with a billow of drapery over his head. At the top on the back is the inscription: DIS MANIBUS; at the front at the top between the satyr heads: ABASCANT[...]/QUI FUIT O [...]/AFRUMENT[....]/VIX ANN XX[...]/VOLUSIA O [...]/CONIUGI/BENEMERENTI ET SIB.
23: sides. The sides are very similar to the front and back, but the garlands are of leaves and the dolphins and waves are missing. Over the garland on one side a bird holds a butterfly in its beak beneath a jug, on the other side a bird pecks a leaf beneath a patera.

Content (object)

altar
altar

Content (note)

Funerary altar

Dimensions

height (actual size): 376mm
width (actual size): 489mm

Inscription

Ciferri Palazzo Barberini No. 144 written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

D. No. 144 [ +??] written in red pencil on the front of the drawing lower left

Materials & techniques note

red chalk on paper

Production

Person

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Altmann (no. 70)
image 148002
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