The Prophet Balaam, Tommaso Porlezza della Porta, 1575 - 1577

Title(s)

The Prophet Balaam
De profeet Balaam

Object type

• modello

Object number

BK-2010-11

Description

Voorstudie in terracotta voor één van de zittende profeten van het Santa Casa in de basiliek van Loreto.

Artist

• sculptor: Tommaso Porlezza della Porta

Place

Rome

Dating

1575 - 1577

Material

• terracotta (clay material)

Technique

modeling

Measurements

height 22.5 cm

What

• the story of Balaam (Numbers 22-24)

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, a private collector and the Migelien Gerritzen Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1-Jun-2010

Copyright

Public domain

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• 1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 103
• 1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 103
• Il cortile delle statue : der Statuenhof des Belvedere im Vatikan : Akten des internationalen Kongresses zu Ehren von Richard Krautheimer, Rom 21.-23. Oktober 1992, p. 209-210
• Renaissance and later sculpture : with works of art in bronze, Malcolm Baker, Michael Maek-Gérard, Anthony Radcliffe, p. 84-89, cat.nr. 8
• The Santa Casa di Loreto : problems in Cinquecento sculpture, Kathleen Weil-Garris, dl. 1, p. 90-91, 98-99, 329-337, fig. 154
• Storia dell'arte italiana, Adolfo Venturi, dl. 10, p. 562-566
• 'De profeet Balaam', Jaarverslag 2010 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, p. 8.
• G. Panofsky, 'Tommaso della Porta’s Castles in the Air', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes' 56 (1993), p. 119-167.
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• Documentatiemap Beeldhouwkunst & Kunstnijverheid.