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Plaster cast - Augustus Caesar

Augustus Caesar

  • Object:

    Plaster cast

  • Place of origin:

    Florence, Italy (sculpted)

  • Date:

    1521 (sculpted)
    1905 (cast)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Da Maiano, Giovanni (after, sculptor)
    Giuntini, Lorenzo (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Plaster cast

  • Museum number:

    REPRO.1905-3

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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This is a cast of one of a series of gilded and painted terracotta roundels with portraits of emperors made for Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530). The terracotta was produced the Florentine artist Giovanni da Maiano, who had come over to work in Britain in the 16th century. The plaster cast is one of several commissioned by the Museum relatively late in the formation of the cast collection, after it had been recommended at a Museum meeting in 1904. The cast cost £15, and in addition £4 10s. was paid for scaffolding to be erected at Hampton Court.

Physical description

Plaster cast after the terracotta original (Roundel with the head of Augustus Caesar within a border of Military Trophies), formerly coloured and gilded by Giovanni Da Maiano, in the Clock Court, Hampton Court Palace.

Place of Origin

Florence, Italy (sculpted)

Date

1521 (sculpted)
1905 (cast)

Artist/maker

Da Maiano, Giovanni (after, sculptor)
Giuntini, Lorenzo (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Plaster cast

Dimensions

Diameter: 107 cm

Object history note

Purchased from Lorenzo Giuntini in 1905 for £5

Historical context note

This is one of a series of roundels containing portraits of emperors made for Cardinal Wolsey (1470/1-1530) which have been connected with a demand for arrears of payment, dated 18 June, 1521, addressed by Giovanni da Maiano to the Cardinal for "octo rotundas imagines exterra depictas et deauratas pro pretio libarum duarum solidorum vj.et denarium octo quamlibet earum...." (for eight round images of terracotta painted and gilded at £2 6s 8d each) executed for "Anon Cort" (Hampton Court).

Descriptive line

Plaster cast after the terracotta original (Roundel with the head of Augustus Caesar within a border of Military Trophies), Florence, 1521, cast by Lorenzo Giuntini, ca. 1905

Subjects depicted

Busts; Augustus

Categories

Sculpture; Architecture

Collection code

SCP

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