Saint Sebastian

c. 1500/1509

Severo da Ravenna

Sculptor, Paduan, active 1496 - 1525/1538

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G14

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.6 x 7.7 x 5.8 cm (9 11/16 x 3 1/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1957.14.17

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1937

  • Master Bronzes Selected from Museums and Collections in America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, 1937, no. 131, repro., as by Andrea Riccio.

1978

  • Severo Calzeta, called Severo da Ravenna, The Frick Collection, New York, 1978, no. 15.

Bibliography

1931

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection: Renaissance Bronzes. Oxford, 1931: 16, no. 8, pl. 8.

1951

  • Renaissance Bronzes: Statuettes, Reliefs and Plaquettes, Medals and Coins from the Kress Collection. Introduction by Perry B. Cott. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 137, repro. 26, as by Andrea Briosco Riccio.

1965

  • Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: 127, no. 470, fig. 487.

1971

  • Mariacher, Giovanni. Bronzetti veneti del rinascimento. Vicenza, 1971: 27 no. 65, repro., as by Riccio.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 71.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 218, repro.

2001

  • Augusti, Adriana, et al, eds. Donatello e il suo tempo: il bronzetto a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento. Exh. cat. Musei Civici, Padua, 2001: 137, 148.

2003

  • Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:363.

2020

  • Malgouyres, Philippe. De Filarete à Riccio. Bronzes italiens de la Renaissance (1430-1550). La collection du musée du Louvre. Paris, 2020: 196.

Wikidata ID

Q63810146

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