Crucified Christ Artist: Camillo Rusconi (Italian, Rome, 1658–1728)

ca. 1690–1700

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Gilt-bronze crucifixes were the most common luxury sculpture commissions throughout Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The present bronze, intended for a private altar, is remarkable for its size and its exceptional quality, most notably in the anatomical sophistication of the figure, the delicate modeling of musculature, and the finely tooled surfaces that differentiate the textures of hair, cloth, and skin. The wooden cross on which the corpus now hangs is old but not original to it.

Medium

Gilt bronze

Dimensions

Corpus: 32 5/16 in. (82 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Laila Twigg-Smith, by exchange; the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund; and the Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund

Accession Number

2011.75.1

Culture

Italian, Rome

Period

17th–18th century

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Said to have come from the collection of the Princes Chigi in Rome; private collection, Germany; Alex Wengraf Ltd., London; Dr. Arther Sackler [place]; Arthur Sackler Foundation.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

crucifixes

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