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The 1584 purchase contract for the Medici group of Niobe sculptures

01/2020 | 1402 | 162

Pages: 26-31

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Author:

Nicolai, Fausto (Nicolai, Fausto)

Subjects

art literature:

Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista de'

collectors and dealers:

Tomassini, Tomaso

dates:

1550-1599

museums and institutions:

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

patrons:

Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609

places:

Rome / Florence

subjects:

Niobe / Sculpture / Purchase / Dating / Contracts / discoveries / Excavations / Reconstructions / Antiquity / Archives

subjects:

Italian sculpture

Illustrations

Western art unattributed:

1. The Niobid Room in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).

Western art unattributed:

2. Fleeing Niobid. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).

Western art unattributed:

3. Niobe and her youngest daughter. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).

Western art unattributed:

4. The Niobids’ tutor, by Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri. Engraving, 27 by 21.3 cm. (From G.B. De’ Cavalieri: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, Rome 1594, pl.10).

Western art unattributed:

5. The Niobids’ tutor (‘Amphion’). Roman. Pentelic marble, height 181 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).

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