{
"data": {
"id": 151965,
"accession_number": "1984.38",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Model for an Angel, c. 1583\u201384. Annibale Fontana (Italian, 1540\u20131587). 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",
"current_location": "117A Italian Renaissance",
"title": "Model for an Angel",
"creation_date": "c. 1583\u201384",
"creation_date_earliest": 1583,
"creation_date_latest": 1584,
"artists_tags": [
"male"
],
"culture": [
"Italy, Milan"
],
"technique": "wax on a metal armature, mounted on wood",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "Sculpture",
"type": "Sculpture",
"measurements": "Overall: 54 x 16 x 26 cm (21 1/4 x 6 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.54,
"height_inch": 21,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.25,
"width": 0.16,
"width_inch": 6,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.3125,
"depth": 0.26,
"depth_inch": 10,
"depth_inch_fraction": 0.25
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 309849,
"title": "Year in Review for 1984",
"description": "Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).",
"opening_date": "1985-04-03T05:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "Rene Gott S.A. (Geneva, Switzerland) and Thomas Howard-Sneyd (London, England), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": null,
"sortorder": null
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": null,
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "Annibale Fontana created this wax model, perhaps in part for the patron\u2019s 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.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756056"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1984.38-model-for-an-angel"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "Fusco, Peter. \"Two Wax Models by Annibale Fontana.\" Antologia di belle arti 21-22 (1984): 40-46.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 44-46, figs. 8-10",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1984.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (1985): 163\u2013207.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 177, no. 11",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897"
},
{
"citation": "Duffin, Ross. \"The Cleveland Museum of Art.\" RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography no. 8 (1986).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 8, no. 156",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Winter, Patrick M. de. \u201cRecent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part II.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 4 (1986): 142\u201382.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 165; reproduced: P. 164, fig. 180, 181",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159938"
},
{
"citation": "Wengraf, Patricia. European Bronzes & Terracottas: Patricia Wengraf Celebrates 40 Years of Fine Sculpture. London: Paul Holberton Publishing 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 38",
"url": null
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.38",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_web.jpg",
"width": "620",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "273803",
"filename": "1984.38_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_print.jpg",
"width": "2362",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4173199",
"filename": "1984.38_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_full.tif",
"width": "4380",
"height": "6306",
"filesize": "82918948",
"filename": "1984.38_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "623",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "272924"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "2371",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4022775"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "4386",
"height": "6290",
"filesize": "82816712"
},
"date_created": "2009-12-09T18:16:45",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt1_web.jpg",
"width": "623",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "279732"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt1_print.jpg",
"width": "2373",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4216489"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt1_full.tif",
"width": "4386",
"height": "6284",
"filesize": "82737084"
},
"date_created": "2009-12-09T18:23:33",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt2_web.jpg",
"width": "623",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "272071"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt2_print.jpg",
"width": "2372",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "3823166"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt2_full.tif",
"width": "4384",
"height": "6284",
"filesize": "82700690"
},
"date_created": "2009-12-09T20:22:36",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt3_web.jpg",
"width": "798",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "452746"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt3_print.jpg",
"width": "3040",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "6864244"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.38/1984.38_alt3_full.tif",
"width": "3927",
"height": "4392",
"filesize": "51793200"
},
"date_created": "2009-12-09T20:28:08",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 151965,
"creators": [
{
"id": 5777,
"description": "Annibale Fontana (Italian, 1540\u20131587)",
"extent": null,
"qualifier": null,
"role": "artist",
"biography": null,
"name_in_original_language": null,
"birth_year": "1540",
"death_year": "1587",
"use_in_caption": true,
"include_extent": false,
"weight": 1
}
],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1984-05-21T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1583,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c. 1583\u201384",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-06-11 12:17:40.136000"
}
}