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Palla Rucellai

Pietro Torrigiani Italian, 1472 - 1528
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About the Artwork

Palla Rucellai

ca. 1506

Pietro Torrigiani

1472 - 1528

Italian

Unknown

Terracotta with polychromy on wood base with polychromy and gilding

Overall (figure): 22 1/2 × 22 11/16 × 10 1/2 inches (57.2 × 57.6 × 26.7 cm) Including base: 27 5/16 × 23 3/8 × 11 inches (69.4 × 59.4 × 27.9 cm)

Sculpture

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth

43.479

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Provenance

until 1876, Rucellai family by descent (Florence, Italy);
1876-ca. 1918, purchased by Wilhelm von Bode for the Kaiser Fredrich Museum (Berlin, Germany);
ca. 1918, purchased by Ralph Harman Booth [1873-1931] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1931-1943, by descent to Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1943-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Passerini, L. Genealogia e storia della Famiglia Rucellai descritta da Luigi Passerini. Florence, 1861.

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1958, p. 71, no. 148.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.]. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., I, cat. 95, pp 194-197.

Principi, Lorenzo. The Master of the Unruly Children: River God and Bacchus. London, 2016, p. 34.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

attributed to Pietro Torrigiani, Palla Rucellai, ca. 1506, terracotta with polychromy on wood base with polychromy and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth, 43.479.

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