Pelican in Her Piety

ca. between 1680 and 1700

Paolo Amato Italian, 1634 - 1714

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Great Hall, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Pelican in Her Piety

Artwork Date ca. between 1680 and 1700

Artist Paolo Amato

Life Dates 1634 - 1714

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 Sculpted and inlaid marble

Dimensions Overall: 78 × 52 1/2 inches (198.1 × 133.4 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation, Inc.

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. 58.261

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Provenance

Unidentified villa (Bagheris, near Palermo, Sicily);
1928, William Salomon (New York, New York, USA);
William Randolph Hearst Foundation;
1958-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Important eighteenth century French art collection belonging to the late Mrs. William Salomon. Sales cat., Anderson Galleries. New York, 1928, pp. 178-181, nos. 180-181 no. 669 [as pair].

Hearst sale. 1941, no. 322.

Piazza, S. "Marble Architectural Decoration in Sicily, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century." Bulletin of the DIA 73, nos. 1/2 (1999).

Vicinelli, S. "An American History of the Marble Relief Sculptures from Sicily." Bulletin of the DIA 73, nos. 1/2 (1999): pp. 55-59.

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 143a.

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attributed to Paolo Amato, Pelican in Her Piety, ca. between 1680 and 1700, sculpted and inlaid marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation, Inc., 58.261.