Mars seated (The Ludovisi Mars)
On displayDetails
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Title
Mars seated (The Ludovisi Mars)
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Artist/maker
Giovanni Francesco Susini (c. 1585 - 1653) (sculptor) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1600 - 1653 -
Material and technique
bronze, lost-wax cast
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Object type
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Dimensions
35.4 cm (height)
26.5 cm from proper right foot to back of mound (length)
12.9 cm of wooden plinth (height)
28 cm of wooden plinth (length)
17.2 cm of wooden plinth (width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Mrs Gutekunst in memory of her husband, Otto Gutekunst, 1953.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 43 | Italian Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1953.110
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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)
Warner-Johnson, Tim, Howard, Jeremy, Colnaghi, Past Present and Future: An Anthology (London, 2016), 7, -----, illus. -----
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