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The Dead Christ Tended by Angels
Founder:
Cantoni, Enrico
Donatello (Donato di Niccolà di Betto Bardi)
(After)
Plaster cast.
Acquired by part exchange and part purchase from the South Kensington Museum
Depth: 6.0 cm
Height: 81.0 cm
Width: 115.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Exchanged/bought (1894-02-28) by South Kensington Museum
19th century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1900
CE
Original Italian, Florence
Plaster cast after a marble relief in the Victoria and Albert Museum (7577-1861)
Casting (process) : Plaster cast
Accession number: M.6-1894
Primary reference Number: 29629
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "The Dead Christ Tended by Angels" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/29629 Accessed: 2023-06-03 12:20:49
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 12:20:49|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-29629
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Accession Number: PD.21-2003
Accession Number: 1070(5).f.13
Accession Number: PD.11-2011
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