Accession number
PML 199041
Creator
Capocaccia, Giovanni Battista, 16th century, artist.
Published
Rome, 1566-1568
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
1 painting
Notes
Portrait of Pius V executed in polychrome-decorated wax relief, in a wooden book-form box covered with red goatskin and decorated in gilt by the Vatican Bindery, Rome, 1566-1568; known to be one of two wax "stucco" portraits by the artist mentioned in th
Binding
Wooden book-form box covered with red goatskin, ca. 1568, by the Vatican bindery, on both covers, a broad lacework border composed of a rectangular arabesque tool, lozenge-shaped center-piece formed by large, partly azured arabesque tools (that on the low
Provenance
Pius V(?);Tammaro de Marinis (1878-1969); Martin Breslauer Inc., New York (Catalogue 103, [1977], item 34; Bernard H. Breslauer (1918-2004; Christie's, New York, 17 May 2005, lot 345 [lots 321-347 identified as the property from the estate of Dr. Bernard
Summary
A relief in wax or "stucco" (a durable mixture of wax, resin and gypsum) of Pope Pius V (Antonio Michele Ghislieri, 1504-1572), depicting the pontiff seated under a baldachin, in ordinary dress (a white cassock, red cape, red shoes, and red capello romano
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