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Lamp
- Place of origin:
Padua (possibly, made)
Ravenna (possibly, made) - Date:
ca. 1500-1550 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Severo da Ravenna (workshop of, maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Bronze
- Museum number:
4284-1857
- Gallery location:
In store
This bronze lamp, mounted on an eagle's claw is made in the workshop of Severo da Ravenna in Padua or Ravenna in the first half of the 16th century.
The lamp is the head of a satyr with foliated beard and eyebrows, whose mouth forms the burner; a hinged cover to the oil hole is on the crown.
This lamp is of a well known type, derived from the antique, but more carefully finished than is usual.
Severo da Ravenna or Severo di Domenico Calzetta da Ravenna was an Italian sculptor, active ca 1496, who died ca. 1543. His father was probably a sculptor and he may have been related to the two painters of the same name working in the circle of Mantegna in Padua: Pietro Calzetta and Francesco Calzetta. Severo might have divided his time between Padua, Ferrara and Ravenna, where he was first recorded in 1496.
