About This Artwork
Bernardo Fioriti
Italian, Rome, active 1643–1673
Bust of Giovanni Battista de Luca1650/74
Marble
H. 74.9 cm (29 1/2 in.)
Signed B.S. (for Bernardino sculpsit) on back
Elizabeth R. Vaughan Endowment, 1967.187
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
London, Heim Gallery, "Italian Paintings & Sculptures of the 17th and 18th Centuries," 7 June – 31 August 1966, no. 58.
Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits, 1600–1900," 8 July – 11 September 1978, no. 37.
Publication History
Andrea Bachi, Scultura del ‘600 a Roma (Milan, 1996), p. 807.
Ownership History
Palazzo Cardinalizio di Ponziano, Rome [according to original dealer solicitation in curatorial file; see also London 1966 exh. cat. and Chicago 1978 exh. cat.]. Private collection, Rome [see sources cited above]. Heim Gallery, London, by 1966 [London 1966 exh. cat.]; sold to the Art Institute, 1967.