Neoptolemus and Polyxena

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1725

Giuseppe Piamontini
Italian, 1664-1742

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Guiseppe Piamontini
Title: Neoptolemus and Polyxena
Place: Italy (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1720–1730
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H.: 33.7 cm (13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Harold T. Martin
Reference Number: 1984.235
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Klaus Lankheit, Florentinische Barockplastik (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1962), p. 289, no. 398.
Detroit Institute of Arts, The Twilight of the Medici: Late Baroque Art in Florence, 1670–1743 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974), pp. 90–95.
Jennifer Montagu, “Some Small Sculptures by Giuseppe Piamontini,” Antichita Viva XIII, 3 (1974), pp. 3-21.
Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001), p. 6, fig. 6.

Nogara Corporation, Monrovia, Liberia, by 1984; sold, Nogara Corporation, to Alex Wengraf Limited, London, by 1984; sold, Alex Wengraf, to the Art Institute, 1984.

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