- Title:
- Bust Portrait of Leonardo Rinaldi (?)
- Object name(s):
- Sculpture; Italian
- Brief description:
- This Carrara marble portrait bust of a bearded man wearing neoclassical military costume is chiselled on the reverse: 'LEONARDUS RINALDIUS/ A. VICTORIA. F/ MDXXXXVI' ('Leonardo Rinaldi / A. [presumably Alessandro] Vittoria F/ 1546'). However, the bust is not in the style of Alessandro Vittoria (1525--1608), the leading sculptor working in Venice in the second half of the sixteenth century, nor has a Leonardo Rinaldi been identified among Venetian noblemen of that time. The sculpture is nonetheless of very high quality and is likely to have been made in Italy in about 1620. The inscription was probably added to increase the value of the sculpture when it was sold.It was presented to the National Gallery by the Art Fund in 1964 in memory of William Gibson, who was Keeper of the National Gallery from 1938 to 1960. It is one of the very few sculptures in the National Gallery’s collection.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1964-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1964
- Date - latest:
- 1964
- Acquisition source:
- The Art Fund
- Credit line:
- Presented by the Art Fund in memory of William Gibson (Keeper of the National Gallery, 1938-60), 1964
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 4/238/783/693/mid_N-6357-00-000011.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 60.90
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 57.00
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 33.00
- Form:
- Structural
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated and inscribed
- Material:
- marble, carved
- Material:
- carving
- Material:
- Carrara marble
- Object name:
- Sculpture; Italian
- Object production date:
- perhaps about 1620
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1620
- Date - latest:
- 1620
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1600-24
- Object production person:
- Italian
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Other number:
- NG6357
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EEO-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6357
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-030X-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36357
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- baroque
- Style:
- academic
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 126
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 737
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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