拍品 51
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An Italian Marmo Giallo Antico Model of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici's Navicella
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An Italian Marmo Giallo Antico Model of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici's Navicella

MID-19TH CENTURY

细节
An Italian Marmo Giallo Antico Model of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici's Navicella
Mid-19th Century
After the Antique, on a marmo Portoro rectangular platform
12 in. (30.5 cm.) long; 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high
来源
Anonymous sale, Christie's South Kensington, 'The Grand Tour', 16 October 1996, lot 168.
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拍品专文

The model for the present lot is the famous marble boat placed in the gardens of the Villa Mattei, Rome, by Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici in the late 17th century. The Antique Roman Navicella, of travertine marble, and almost eight feet long, was discovered near the Villa Celimontana in the early 16th century and may originally have been an ex voto offering for a safe voyage. The barge is carved with the iugum yoke, symbolic of the conquered nations on tablets behind the boar-headed rostrum prow. An engraving of a related moneris (single row of oars) galley is illustrated by G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi..., 1778, F714.