King Juba I of Numidia Led in Triumph by Julius Caesar
c. 1433/1435
Filarete
Sculptor, Italian, c. 1400 - 1469
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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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 Number
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