Capital
- Place of origin:
- Date:
- Artist/Maker:
Francesco di Giorgio, born 1439 - died 1501 (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Museum number:
- Gallery location:
Medieval and Renaissance, room 50a, case WN
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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.A corbel rather than a capital, the object would have been set in to the wall at the point where the vault of the ceiling meets the wall providing an aesthetic termination rather than any significant architectural support.
Physical description
Pilaster capital of Istrian stone. Carved with a tapered bracket, from which rise two acanthus leaves and two volutes with, between them, a shield with the arms of Della Rovere (quarterly, 1 and 4 paly of four, a)Aragon, b)Hungary, c)Naples, d)Jerusalem, order reversed in 4; 2 Della Rovere, 3 Montefeltro) supported by a standing winged putto. At the top a concave moulding.
Place of Origin
Italy (made)
Date
ca. 1483-1490 (made)
Artist/maker
Francesco di Giorgio, born 1439 - died 1501 (maker)
Materials and Techniques
Istrian stone
Dimensions
Height: 45 cm, Width: 36 cm, Depth: 23 cm
Descriptive line
Italian renaissance capital
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. 305
Raggio, Olga, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Art Bulletin vol.L, 1968.
Exhibition History
A Grand Design - The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum 14/10/1999-14/10/1999)
Francesco di Giorgio, Architetto. (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena 25/04/1993-05/09/1993)
Production Note
From the Rocca Roveresca di Mondolfo near Sinigallia in the Marches, central Italy.
Categories
Architecture
Collection code
SCP
