Portrait Head of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Details
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Title
Portrait Head of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Artist/maker
Daniele da Volterra (1509 - 1566) (sculptor) -
Associated place
Florence (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1560 - 1566 -
Material and technique
bronze with walnut socle
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Object type
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Dimensions
lowest part of neck to top head 28 cm (height)
socle 20 cm (width)
socle to lowest part of bronze 16 cm (height)
with socle 10 kg (weight)
socle without dowl 13 cm approx. (height)
socle 20 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by William Woodburn, 1845.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 43 | Italian Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1846.307
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Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 109
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