id:			151965
accession number:	1984.38
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.38
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:24.455000

Model for an Angel, c. 1583–1584. Annibale Fontana (Italian, 1540–1587). Wax on a metal armature, mounted on wood; overall: 54 x 16 x 26 cm (21 1/4 x 6 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1984.38

title:				Model for an Angel
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creation date:			c. 1583–1584
creation date earliest:		1583
creation date latest:		1584
current location:		117A Italian Renaissance
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Italy, Milan, 16th century
technique:	wax on a metal armature, mounted on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Annibale Fontana (Italian, 1540–1587)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 54 x 16 x 26 cm (21 1/4 x 6 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1984
	opening date:   1985-04-03T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1984</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Rene Gott S.A. (Geneva, Switzerland) and Thomas Howard-Sneyd (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.
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wall description:
Annibale Fontana created this wax model, perhaps in part for the patron’s approval, while preparing a sculpture for the Church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan. The angel was mounted high on the facade, so the composition needed to be impeccably balanced as well as legible from the ground. Wings and a trumpet appear in the final work, but Fontana here concentrates on the deep folds, clinging drapery, and forceful pose.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	
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	Fusco, Peter. "Two Wax Models by Annibale Fontana." <em>Antologia di belle arti </em>21-22 (1984): 40-46.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-46, figs. 8-10
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	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 72, no. 2 (1985): 163–207.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 177, no. 11
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897

	Duffin, Ross. "The Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography </em>no. 8 (1986).
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 8, no. 156
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	Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part II.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 4 (1986): 142–82.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 165; reproduced: P. 164, fig. 180, 181
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159938

	Wengraf, Patricia. <em>European Bronzes &amp; Terracottas: Patricia Wengraf Celebrates 40 Years of Fine Sculpture</em>. London: Paul Holberton Publishing 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 38
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IMAGES

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