Hercules
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Details
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Title
Hercules
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Artist/maker
probably Vittore Gambello ("Camelio") (1455 or 1460 - 1537) (sculptor) -
Associated place
Venice (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1501 - 1525 -
Material and technique
copper alloy
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.3 cm (height)
9.2 cm (width)
32.6 cm with wooden socle (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1899.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 43 | Italian Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1899.CDEF.B413
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Further reading
Wilhelm von Bode, ‘Die Italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance’, (1922), p.60 Pl.73
Hall, James, ‘The Renaissance bronze: Art at its most lovable’, (1999), illus. 52
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 172 - 179 no. 47
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