Relief from an Altar or Tabernacle

c. 1507/1512

Benedetto da Rovezzano

Sculptor, Florentine, 1474 - c. 1554

Benedetto da Rovezzano

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 9

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 53 x 129.5 x 7.7 cm (20 7/8 x 51 x 3 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.131

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Chabrière-Arlès collection, Paris, by 1903. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 29 September 1916 by Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener after purchase with funds from the estate by Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as Putti with Plaque by Italian Artist 16th Century.

1948

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 124, repro., as Florentine School, Architectural Plaque: Putti Bearing Inscribed Tablet.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 155, as Florentine School, Architectural Plaque: Putti Bearing Inscribed Tablet.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 137, repro., as Florentine School, Architectural Plaque: Putti Bearing Inscribed Tablet.

1974

  • Luchs, Alison. "A Relief by Benedetto da Rovezzano in the National Gallery of Art in Washington." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 28 (1974): 362-369, repro.

1981

  • Cooperativa per ricerche storico-artistiche. Arte e Storia in San Michele a San Salvi. Florence, 1981: 34, 43, 44.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 634, no. 994, repro.

1992

  • "Benedetto da Rovezanno." Saur Allgemeines Künstler Lexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und völker. Multiple volumes. Munich and Leizig, 1992- : 9:19-20.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 28, repro.

2007

  • Vasari, Giorgio. Die Leben der Bildhauer des Cinquecento. Edited by Sabine Feser and Victoria Lorini. Berlin, 2007: 213.

Inscriptions

upper center inscribed on tablet: REX REGVM ET / DOMINVS /DOMINANTIVM

Wikidata ID

Q63809312

You may be interested in

Loading Results