St Bruno
Statuette
ca. 1800 - ca. 1820 (made)
ca. 1800 - ca. 1820 (made)
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This ivory statuette represents Saint Bruno and is made in Spain in about 1800 - 1820. St Bruno (about 1032-1101) was the founder of the Carthusian Order. Although never officially canonised, he is recognised as a saint, as the Holy See approved his cult for Carthusians in 1514, and this was extended to the Universial Church in 1674. He is usually portrayed in Carthusian habit holding a lily and with a skull. Although somewhat neo-classical in style, and so likely to date from the early nineteenth century, the present figure is stylistically related to seventeenth- century Spanish and Portuguese sculpture in wood, such as the work of Manuel Pereira (1588-1683), whose life-size polychromed wood figure of St Bruno was made for the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores outside Burgos before 1635.
Object details
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| Title | St Bruno (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Ivory on wood base |
| Brief description | Statuette, ivory on wood base, 'St Bruno', Spain, ca. 1800-1820 |
| Physical description | Ivory statuette on wood base of St Bruno. The saint, wearing a Carthusian habit, stands, resting on his left leg, his right leg stepping forward. His right arm and hand are outstretched with open palm, his left arm is stretched out with a clasped hand, perhaps originally holding a lily. The mitre is placed on the base at his feet. The wood base rests on four ivory bun feet; an ivory scroll fixed to the base is inscribed. Some fingers are broken off; an object (probably a skull) missing from the left corner of the base. A paper label inscribed '40' is stuck onto the back of the base. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'S. BRVNO' (On the scroll fixed to the base.) |
| Credit line | From the Murray bequest in 1910 |
| Object history | Although somewhat neo-classical in style, and so likely to date from the early nineteenth century, the present figure is stylistically related to seventeenth-century Spanish and Portuguese sculpture in wood, such as the work of Manuel Pereira (1588-1683), whose life-size polychromed wood figure of St Bruno was made for the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores outside Burgos before 1635. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | This ivory statuette represents Saint Bruno and is made in Spain in about 1800 - 1820. St Bruno (about 1032-1101) was the founder of the Carthusian Order. Although never officially canonised, he is recognised as a saint, as the Holy See approved his cult for Carthusians in 1514, and this was extended to the Universial Church in 1674. He is usually portrayed in Carthusian habit holding a lily and with a skull. Although somewhat neo-classical in style, and so likely to date from the early nineteenth century, the present figure is stylistically related to seventeenth- century Spanish and Portuguese sculpture in wood, such as the work of Manuel Pereira (1588-1683), whose life-size polychromed wood figure of St Bruno was made for the Carthusian monastery of Miraflores outside Burgos before 1635. |
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| Accession number | A.1069-1910 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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