id: 125936 accession number: 1948.171 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.171 updated: 2025-02-09 01:20:59.876000 Venus with a Burning Urn, c. 1500–1520. Northern Italy, 16th century. Gilt bronze; overall: 19.6 x 6.3 x 4 cm (7 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 1 9/16 in.); with base: 28.6 x 7 x 7 cm (11 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1948.171 title: Venus with a Burning Urn title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500–1520 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1525 current location: 117A Italian Renaissance creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern Italy, 16th century technique: gilt bronze department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 19.6 x 6.3 x 4 cm (7 11/16 x 2 1/2 x 1 9/16 in.); with base: 28.6 x 7 x 7 cm (11 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts opening date: 1949-09-30T04:00:00 Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949). title: The Renaissance Image of Man and the World opening date: 1961-10-27T04:00:00 The Renaissance Image of Man and the World. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 27, 1961). title: Antiquity in the Renaissance opening date: 1978-04-06T05:00:00 Antiquity in the Renaissance. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (April 6-June 6, 1978). title: Nature and Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance opening date: 1985-12-04T05:00:00 Nature and Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance. Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (organizer) (December 4, 1985-March 2, 1986). title: Bonacolsi. L'Antico. Uno scultore nella Mantova di Andrea Mantegna e di Isabella d'Este opening date: 2008-09-13T00:00:00 Bonacolsi. L'Antico. Uno scultore nella Mantova di Andrea Mantegna e di Isabella d'Este. Museo di Palazzo Ducale, Mantova, Italy (September 13, 2008-January 6, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, (fall, 1943-1944): "15th and 16th c. Sculpture in Bronze and Wood, lent by Dr. Ernst Wittman," (no cat.)', 'opening_date': '1943-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (1961): "The Renaissance Image of Man and the World"', 'opening_date': '1961-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Smith College Museum of Art (4/6/1978 - 6/6/1978): "Antiquity in the Renaissance"', 'opening_date': '1978-04-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, Italy (9/13/2008 - 1/6/2009): "Bonacolsi. L\'Antico. Uno scultore nella Mantova di Andrea Mantegna e di Isabella d\'Este"', 'opening_date': '2008-09-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE John Postle Heseltine, 1843-1929 (London, England) date: footnotes: citations: Dr. Ernö Wittmann, died 1963 (Budapest, Hungary), by 1929 date: footnotes: citations: R. Stora & Company (New York), by 1948, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. “Recent Accessions in Bronze.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 1 (1949): 5–7. page number: Mentioned: P. 5; reproduced: Cover url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141525 Pope-Hennessy, John. “Recent Research.” The Burlington Magazine 91, no. 557 (1949): 233–234. page number: Mentioned: P. 234 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/870194 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 240 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n51 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 91 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n115 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 91 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n115 Wixom, William D. Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.
Published as: Venus Prudentia page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 109 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 105 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n125 Draper, James David. "Andrea Riccio and hi Colleagues in the Untermyer Collection." Apollo (March 1978): 170-180. page number: Mentioned: P. 180 n. 55 url: Brown, Beverly Louise. "Picturing the Perfect Marriage: The Equilibrium of Sense and Sensibility in Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love."" In Art and Love in Renaissance Italy. Andrea Bayer,ed., 238-245. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 240, fig. 94 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 175 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.171/1948.171_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.171/1948.171_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.171/1948.171_full.tif