Neptune: Allegory of Winter and Water

ca. 1545

Danese Cattaneo Italian, ca. 1509 - 1572

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Neptune: Allegory of Winter and Water

Artwork Date ca. 1545

Artist Danese Cattaneo

Life Dates ca. 1509 - 1572

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 Bronze, cast after wax model, black patina

Dimensions Overall: 48 × 23 1/2 × 23 inches (121.9 × 59.7 × 58.4 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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. 49.417

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Palazzo Rezzonico (Venice, Italy);
Count William von Pourtales (Berlin, Germany);
Count Friedrich von Pourtales;
(Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, New York, USA);
1949-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Browning, R. My Last Duchess. 1844. [indirect reference]

Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2 (1892): p. 159.

Bode, W. Werk Uber der Renaissance Ausstellung. Berlin, 1898, p. 1 (pls. 28, 56).

Bode, W. von, and R. Stettiner, R. eds. Austellung von Kunstworken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus Berliner Privatbesizt veranstalet von der Kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, 20 Mai bis 3 Juli 1898. Berlin, 1899, pp. 1, 97, 98 (pls. XXVIII, LVI).

Austellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Migleider des Kaiser Freidrich - Museums – Verein. Exh. cat. Berlin, 1906.

Burger, F. Ausstellung Plasticher Bildwerke des 15. und 16. Munchen, Zeitschrift fur Bildende Kunst, 18th year, 1907, pp. 148-149.

Bode, W. Die Italienische Bronze Statuetten der Renaissance, Vol. 2. Berlin,, 1907, p. 23 (pl. 44).

Planiscig, L. Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance. Vienna, 1921, p. 353. [as not by Sansovino]

Planiscig, L. Collections Camillo Gastiglioni. Vienna, 1923

Planiscig, L. Catalogue des Bronzes Antiques et de la Renaissance. Amsterdam, 1925, no. 37.

Schubring. 1924

Schubring, Paul. Die Kunst der Hoch Renaissance in Italian. Berlin, 1926, p. 516. [as by Francesco da San Gallo]

Verzeichnis der National Wertvollen Kunstwerke. Berlin, 1927, p. 19, no. 362.

Kriegbaum. 1929, pp. 71-103.

Middeldorf, Ulrich. Thieme-Becker 30 (1935): p. 405. [as by Francesco da San Gallo]

Wiehrauch, H.R. Studien Sum Werke der Jacopo Sansovino. Strassbourg, 1935, p. 96.

Middledorf, U. " Francesco da Sangallo." Thieme-Becker 29 (1938): pp. 405 – 411.

Venturi, A. Encyclopaedia Italiana, Vol. 30. 1936, p. 58.

Wiehrauch, Hans R. Thieme-Becker, Vol. 32 (1938): p. 469. [1926, p. 516; as not by Sansovino]

Detroit Institute of Arts. Pictures on Exhibit 12, 2 (November 1949): pp. 59-60.

Richardson, E.P. Two Bronze Figures by Jacopo Sansovino."Bulletin of the DIA 29, 3 (1949-50): pp. 58-62 (fig. 1).

_____________. "Two Bronzes by Jacopo Sansovino." Art Quarterly 13, 1 (1950): pp. 2-11 (ill.).

_____________. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. Detroit Institute of Arts, 1954, p. 129.

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1958, p.108, nos. 260-261.

Ciardi-Dupre, M.G. "La Prima attivita dell'Ammanati Sculpture." Paragone 135 (1961): p. 3ff. [as by Ammanati]

Ciardi-Dupre, M.G. "Bronzi di Bartolomeo Ammanati." Paragone 189 (1965): pp. 57-59.

Pope-Hennessy, J. "An exhibition of Italian Bronze Statuettes." Essays on Italian Sculpture. London, 1968, p. 191. [as by Cattaneo]

DIA Handbook. 1972, p. 92.

Perry, M. "A Greek Bronze in Renaissance Venice." The Burlington Magazine 117 (April 1975): p. 207.

Kinney, P. The Early Sculpture of Bartolomeo Ammanati. New York, 1976, pp. 106-108, no. 29. [as by Cattaneo]

Bode, Wilhelm. The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, new edition. New York, 1980, p. 57, p. 101f (pl. 154).

Pope-Hennessy, J. "The Relations Between Florentine and Venetian Sculpture in the Sixteenth Century." Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations, II, Cinquecento. Florence, 1980, p 333. [S. Bertelli, ed.]

Boucher, Bruce. The Genius of Venice, 1500-1600. Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1983 - 1984, pp. 383-384, no.S32 and S33 (ill.). [as attributed to Ammanati]

Martineau, J., and C. Hope. The Genius of Venice, 1500- 1600. London, pp. 383-384, S32 (ill.).

Boucher,B. "An Annunciation by Jacopo Sansovino." Apollo (July 1983): p. 22-27.

Davis, C. “Review of The Genius of Venice 1500-1600 exhibition.” Kunstchronik 37, 3 (March 1984): p. 87. [as not by Ammanati]

Rearick, W.R. "Observations on the Venetian Cinquecento in the Light of the Royal Academy Exhibition." Artibus et Historiae 9 (1984): pp. 73-74.

Darr in Tokyo. 1989, pp. 42-43, 149-150, 199, no. 9.

Boucher, B. The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino, 2 vols. New Haven, 1991, vol. 2, p. 374, no. 124 (figs. 399-400).

Krahn, V., ed. Von allen Seiten schon: Bronzen er Renaissance und des Barock. Exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Berlin, 1995, pp. 45-46 (fig. 10).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 102a.

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attributed to Danese Cattaneo, Neptune: Allegory of Winter and Water, ca. 1545, bronze, cast after wax model, black patina. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 49.417.