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Valerio Belli

Artist, Italian, 1468 - 1546

Valerio Belli

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gilded bronze

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10.4 x 8 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.) gross weight: 111 gr

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.178


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer [d. 1894], Berlin; his wife, Julie Hainauer, Berlin; acquired 1906 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); by exchange 21 October 1920 to Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1897

  • Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: no. 231.

1908

  • A Cabinet of One Hundred & Thirty-Three Bronze Plaques and Medals of the Renaissance Period from the Collection of the Late Herr Oscar Hainauer of Berlin. Ed. Duveen Brothers. London, n.d. (but 1908): no. 126, repro.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 15.

2003

  • Avagnina, Maria Elisa, Margaret Binotto, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, eds. Pinacoteca civica di Vicenza: catalogo scientifico delle collezioni. Milan, 2003: 3:230.

2004

  • Donati, Valentino and Rosanna Casadio. Bronzi e pietre dure nelle incisione di Valerio Belli vicentino. Ferrara, 2004: 118, no. 113, repro.

Inscriptions

lower center on tablet: HVIVS LIVORE SANATI SVMVS

Wikidata ID

Q63810195


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