Bust of a Scholar or Prelate

1545

Torrigiano, Pietro Italian, active 1545

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

Bust of a Scholar or Prelate: 1 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Bust of a Scholar or Prelate

Artwork Date 1545

Artist ----------

Life Dates active 1545

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Terracotta with polychrome decoration

Dimensions Overall: 15 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches (39.4 × 41.9 × 26.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1986.1

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Inscriptions Inscribed, across the back: VIXIT ANOS 75 | OBITT A.N.SA 1545 | DIE Pa. AVG. [He lived for seventy-five years and died 1st August 1545]

Provenance

until 1964, Prince Nicholas of Romania;
private collection;
by 1986, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England);
1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Collection of Prince Nicholase of Romania. Exh. cat., Galerie Jurg Stuker. Bern, 1964, no. 3450. [as Agostino Zoppo, Padua]

Colvin, H.M. History of the King's Works. London, 1975, p. 320.

Darr, A.P. "The Sculptures of Torrigiano: The Westminster Abbey Tombs." Connoisseur 200, no. 805 (March 1979): pp. 177-184.

Darr, A.P. "Torrigiano's Head of Christ." Apollo 116, no. 249 (November 1982): pp. 292-298.

Sales cat., Sotheby's. London, December 12, 1985, no. 101.

Darr, A.P. "European Sculpture and Decorative Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): pp. 22-24.

Darr, A.P. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit." Apollo 124, no. 298 (1986): pp. 284-285.

Darr, A.P. "European sculpture and decorative arts acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts 1978-87." The Burlington Magazine 130 (June 1988): pp. 495-496 (fig. 101).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 8 (ill.).

Gentillini, G. "'Il Beato Sorore' di Santa Maria Scala." Antologia di Belle Arti 52-55 (1996): p. 30, no. 75.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, and C. Avery. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, vol. 1, cat. 100.

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circle of Torrigiano, Pietro, Bust of a Scholar or Prelate, 1545, terracotta with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund, 1986.1.