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Architecture
  • Architecture
    Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, born 1439 - died 1501
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Architecture

  • Place of origin:

    Italy (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1483-1490 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, born 1439 - died 1501 (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Istrian stone

  • Museum number:

    368D-1878

  • Gallery location:

    Medieval & Renaissance, Room 50a, The Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery, case WW

This console, with acanthus leaves and other Renaissance decoration, came from a fort on the Adriatic coast. The fort was commissioned by Giovanni della Rovere, Lord of Senigallia and nephew of Pope Sixtus IV. This is a corbel rather than a capital and the object would have been set in to the wall at the point where the vault of the ceiling meets the wall to provide an aesthetic termination rather than any significant architectural support.

Physical description

Pilaster of Istrian stone. Carved with a tapered bracket, from which rise two volutes and folage. On the top of the bracket are two winged dragons facing outwards. At the top a cocave moulding with, in the centre, an eagle.

Place of Origin

Italy (made)

Date

ca. 1483-1490 (made)

Artist/maker

Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, born 1439 - died 1501 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Istrian stone

Dimensions

Height: 46 cm, Width: 36.1 cm approx, Depth: 24.5 cm

Object history note

Purchased in London by J C Robinson with 20 others

Descriptive line

Pilaster capital castello di mondolfo; Stone Italian (urbino) c1490

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington Museum acquired in the Year 1878. London, 1879, p. 35
Pope-Hennessy, John, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1964. pp. 302
Raggio, Olga, 'Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum', Art Bulletin vol.L, 1968.

Production Note

From the Rocca Roveresca di Mondolfo near Sinigallia in the Marches, central Italy

Materials

Istrian stone

Collection

Sculpture Collection

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