id:			143645
accession number:	1968.101
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.101
updated:		2025-02-09 03:20:44.999000

Head of Proserpina, 1650– 1700. After Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680). Terracotta; overall: 15.2 x 10.3 cm (6 x 4 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1968.101

title:				Head of Proserpina
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1650– 1700
creation date earliest:		1650
creation date latest:		1700
current location:		301 Baroque Sculpture Mezzanine
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

---

culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	terracotta
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680)  - artist

---

measurements: Overall: 15.2 x 10.3 cm (6 x 4 1/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	penciled inscription on neck:  "Palazzo Bernini / 1839"
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Baroque Imagery
	opening date:   1984-11-06T05:00:00
	<i>Baroque Imagery</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 1984-January 6, 1985).

	title:		Gian Lorenzo Bernini Regista del Barocco
	opening date:   1999-05-20T00:00:00
	<i>Gian Lorenzo Bernini Regista del Barocco</i>. Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, Italy (organizer) (May 20-September 16, 1999).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '"Mostra de antiche sculture italiane," Studio d\'arte Palma, Rome, 1945 (cited by Lavin, 1956)', 'opening_date': '1945-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA:  "Year in Review for 1968," Bulletin, LVI (January 1969), p. 44, no. 12, repr. p. 4', 'opening_date': '1969-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA:  "Drawings by Gianlorenzo Bernini from the Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany," as circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982', 'opening_date': '1981-12-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, April 16-May 16, 1982, cat. 1, p. 17, repr. pp. 16, 18', 'opening_date': '1982-04-16T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA:  Baroque Imagery," cat. 24, pp. 53-54, repr. p. 53', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Rome, Italy; Palazzo Venezia  (5/20-9/16/99) "Gian Lorenzo Bernini Regista del Barocco"  p. 82, no. 27, p. 315, no. 27.', 'opening_date': '2016-09-01T00:00:00'}

---

PROVENANCE

	Heirs of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Rome, Italy);
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Buseri (Rome, Italy) [sold, Sotheby's, 16 May 1968, no. 103, to Herbert N. Bier);
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Herbert N. Bier (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968.
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	
	page number: 	
	url:		

	
	page number: 	
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 135
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n155

	Simonato, Lucia. <em>Bernini Scultore: Il Difficile Dialogo con la Modernità</em>. Milano: Electa, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 127 & p.135 Reproduced: p. 128, fig. 45
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.101/1968.101_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.101/1968.101_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.101/1968.101_full.tif