IDENTIFIERS
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id:	14013
accession number:	M.11-1997

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 3 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bronze statuette of Braccio di Bartolo, known as Il Nano Morgante (c. 1535 - after 1594), court dwarf and a favourite of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in Florence. Il Morgante was the most famous of the five jesters in Cosimo's court.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Leitch & Kerin by 15 Sept. 1937, when purchased (invoice: £35) by Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC; bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Boscawen Collection
creditline: Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14013

PEOPLE
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Morgante
dwarf




TECHNIQUES
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bronze, cast and patinated
casting (process)
TECHNIQUES
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patination

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1560 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1560
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	16th Century, Mid-17th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Giambologna (Jean Boulogne)
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes
CITATIONS
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The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
European Sculpture, Works of Art and Maiolica, 10th December 1997
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