IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13902 accession number: M.1-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast and chased in relief, and gilt. Octagonal. The Holy Family is shown resting in a landscape setting, the Virgin sits in the centre, about to wrap a cloth around the sleeping Christ Child on the left. The cloth, tied to a tree to the right, is held aloft behind Mary and the Christ Child by an angel looking reverently down on the sleeping baby. To the right, Joseph, sitting on bended knee under the tree, looks up from the book he is holding his left hand towards his wife and son. object type: Octagonal relief, of bronze, cast, chased and gilt. title: relief NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Miss Alys Kingsley STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13902 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary Christ St Joseph angel SUBJECTS ------------------- tree The Flight into Egypt tree The Flight into Egypt TECHNIQUES ---------- copper alloy, probably bronze, cast and chased in relief, and gilt casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- gilt-bronze CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 17th Century, first half# CREATORS -------- maker: Algardi, Alessandro DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 35.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam, "The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation" title: Effigies and Ecstasies, Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005) CITATIONS -------- Alessandro Algardi Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue: Supplementary Volume A-Z Effigies and Ecstasies, Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini Algardi: L'Altra Faccia del Barocco Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Upcoming Exhibition, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum Frick Collection To Exhibit Remarkable Bronzes From The Fitzwilliam Museum Expositions. La Frick Collection célèbre le bronze européen Burlington Magazine, January 1966 Catalogue of Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum Antonio and Gioseppe Giorgett: Sculptors to Cardinal Franceso Barberini Important Sculpture and Works of Art, including the 19th Century, 23rd June 1982 Important European Works of Art and Sculpture, 2nd July 1996 Old Master Paintings including European Works of Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_1_1939.jpg height: 619 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_1_1939.jpg height: 407 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_1_1939.jpg height: 619 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_1_1939.jpg height: 204 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/853/large_M_1_1939_dc1.jpg height: 844 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/853/mid_M_1_1939_dc1.jpg height: 412 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/853/M_1_1939_dc1.jpg height: 4084 pixels width: 4953 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/626/853/preview_M_1_1939_dc1.jpg height: 206 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/442/large_M_1_1939_mas.jpg height: 844 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/442/mid_M_1_1939_mas.jpg height: 412 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/442/M_1_1939_mas.jpg height: 4084 pixels width: 4953 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/640/442/preview_M_1_1939_mas.jpg height: 206 pixels width: 250 pixels