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accession number: 1957.496
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Portrait of Pope Innocent X Pamphili, designed 1647–48; cast 1650–1700. Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654). Bronze; overall: 97 x 81 x 29 cm (38 3/16 x 31 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); base: 23.5 x 27.1 cm (9 1/4 x 10 11/16 in.); without base: 78.1 x 81.6 cm (30 3/4 x 32 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., in honor of William Mathewson Milliken, Director 1930-1958 1957.496
title: Portrait of Pope Innocent X Pamphili
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creation date: designed 1647–48; cast 1650–1700
creation date earliest: 1647
creation date latest: 1648
current location: 217 Italian Baroque
creditline: Gift of Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., in honor of William Mathewson Milliken, Director 1930-1958
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culture: Italy, 17th century
technique: bronze
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Alessandro Algardi (Italian, 1598–1654) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 97 x 81 x 29 cm (38 3/16 x 31 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Base: 23.5 x 27.1 cm (9 1/4 x 10 11/16 in.); without base: 78.1 x 81.6 cm (30 3/4 x 32 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
title: Art in Italy, 1600-1700
opening date: 1965-04-06T05:00:00
Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 6-May 9, 1965).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
title: Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections
opening date: 1998-02-08T00:00:00
Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-April 12, 1998).
title: Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
opening date: 2008-08-05T00:00:00
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (August 5-October 26, 2008); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (November 28, 2008-March 8, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Art of the Seaway Nations. East Ohio Gas Company, Cleveland, OH (Week of April 20, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-20T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (April 6-May 9, 1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-04-06T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Baron Gustave de Rothschild, Paris, France
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Lambert Palais, Brussels, Belgium
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(Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: -1957
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1957-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Honour, Hugh. "17th Century Art in Europe." The Connoisseur CXXXIX, no. 559 (January 1957): 34-35.
page number: Reproduced: P. 35
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Milliken, William M. “Early Byzantine Silver.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 3 (1958).
page number: Reproduced: p. 60
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265
"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly XXI, no. 1 (Spring 1958): 82-100.
page number: Mentioned: P. 91
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Hawley, Henry H. “Alessandro Algardi: Pope Innocent X.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 4 (1962): 80–82.
page number: Reproduced: p. 80, detail p. 81
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151890
Cellini, Antonia Nava. "Per l'Intergrazione e lo Svolgimento della Ritrattistica di Alessandro Algardi's." Paragone: Mensile di Arte Figurativa e Letteratura XV, no. 177 (September 1964): 15-36.
page number: Mentioned: P. 32, n. 4
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Cummings, Frederick J. Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit:, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts; distributed by H.N. Abrams, New York, 1965.
page number: Reproduced: p. 41
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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. 115
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n139
Wittkower, Rudolf. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon P., 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 222
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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. 115
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n139
Bershad, David L. "A Series of Papal Busts by Domenico Guidi." The Burlington Magazine 112, no. 813 (1970): 805-11.
page number: Mentioned: P. 809, n. 21
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/876529
Heimbürger, Minna. Alessandro Algardi scultore. Roma, Italy: Istituto di studi romani, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 118
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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. 137
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n157
Bershad, David Leonard. Domenico Guidi: A 17th Century Roman Sculptor. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: P. 63-64
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Spike, John T. Baroque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections : The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, December 7, 1984-February 3, 1985, Wadsworth Atheneum, March 20-May 20, 1985. Sarasota, Fla: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1984.
page number: Reproduced: p. 49
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Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation, Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University, 1986.
page number: Mentioned: p. 31
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Bergman, Robert P., Diane DeGrazia, and Stephen N. Fliegel. Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections : an Exhibition in Honor of the Sesquicentenary of the Diocese of Cleveland. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 111, no. 37
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Ferrari, Oreste, and Serenita Papaldo. Le sculture del Seicento a Roma. Roma, Italy: Ugo Bozzi, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 486
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Bacchi, Andrea, Catherine Hess, Jennifer Montagu, and Anne-Lise Desmas. Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture. Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 232, pl. 5.10
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