King Juba I of Numidia Led in Triumph by Julius Caesar

c. 1433/1435

Antonio Averlino, called Filarete

Sculptor, Italian, c. 1400 - 1469

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G15


Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 15.4 x 27.4 cm (6 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
    gross weight: 2122.3 gr (4.679 lb.)

  • Accession

    1999.102.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Rome, until at least May 1945.[1] Private collection, Germany, in late 1990s; sold early 1999 to (Peter Silverman, Paris); sold to private collection, England, by May 1999; purchased 1 November 1999 through (Richard Falkiner, London) by NGA.
[1] The relief was lent to an exhibition at the Studio d'Arte Palma in Rome from May through July 1945. The owner in the catalogue is listed as a private collection in Rome.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Mostra Antiche Sculture Italiane, Studio d'Arte Palma, Rome, 1945, no. 13.

Bibliography

1973

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. "Filarete?" Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 17, no. 1 (1973): 75-86, esp. note 36.

1989

  • Cannata, Pietro. “Le placchette del Filarete.” In Italian Plaquettes. Douglas Lewis, ed. Studies in the History of Art 22, Symposium Papers 9 (1989): 50 n. 35.

2011

  • Glass, Robert. “Filarete at the Papal Court: Sculpture, Ceremony and the Antique in Early Renaissance Rome.” Ph.D. diss, Princeton University, (2011): 357 n.36, 361 n.46, 362 n.48, 376 n.79.

2016

  • Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at Carlton Hobbs LLC. Important European Bronzes. London, 2016: 62, 64.

2020

  • Malgouyres, Philippe. De Filarete à Riccio. Bronzes italiens de la Renaissance (1430-1550). La collection du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2020: 30, describing the NGA plaquette as an aftercast of an example in a private Chilean collection.

Inscriptions

top right, divided by head of rider: IVLIVS CEASAR (Julius Ceasar); lower left, beneath mount: REX.IVBA (King Juba)

Wikidata ID

Q63861768


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