id:			132329
accession number:	1954.798
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.798
updated:		2025-03-05 12:07:40.960000

Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents, c. 1510–20. Workshop of Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c.1496-c.1543). Bronze; overall: 21 x 11 x 13 cm (8 1/4 x 4 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1954.798

title:				Inkwell and Candlestick with the Infant Hercules Killing the Serpents
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creation date:			c. 1510–20
creation date earliest:		1505
creation date latest:		1525
current location:		118 Italian Renaissance
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Italy, Ravenna, 16th century
technique:	bronze
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Severo da Ravenna (Italian, c.1496-c.1543)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 21 x 11 x 13 cm (8 1/4 x 4 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

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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'}

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PROVENANCE

	Pfungst;
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	John Pierpont Morgan, 1837-1915 (New York, New York)
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	Ernö Wittmann (Budapest, Hungary), died 1963, sold through R. Stora & Co. (New York, New York) to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74–138.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104, fig. 67
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159934

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Images of the Mind.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
	page number: 	Reproduced: [p. 11]
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