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Italy: Rome, San Andrea della Valle. Study of Renaissance candelabrum attributed to Michelangelo with figures and grotesque decoration, supported by two volutes with lions and putti heads incorporating the Strozzi arms.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/111
Purpose
Italy: Rome, San Andrea della Valle. Study of Renaissance candelabrum attributed to Michelangelo with figures and grotesque decoration, supported by two volutes with lions and putti heads incorporating the Strozzi arms.
Aspect
Elevation
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in an eighteenth-century hand, possibly that of Giuseppe Manocchi, Candeliere di S Andrea della Valle di Michelangelo
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, brown wash (later, pencil)
466 x 173
Hand
Giuseppe Manocchi
Notes
This bronze candelabrum was one of a pair made for the Strozzi chapel in San Andrea della Valle, Rome. Like the drawing in Adam vol.26/110 there is a copy of this drawing in ink on tracing paper in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London with a Charles James Richardson (1806-71) provenance (see P. Ward-Jackson, Victoria and Albert Museum, Italian Drawings, 2 vols., London, 1979, II, p.154).
There is a candle design by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82) of c.1777 in the Drawings Collection (see J. Lever, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, L-N, London, 1973, p.64), which was attributed to Charles Heathcote Tatham and others in album five of the Hardwick drawings in the RIBA (see 5/4). There is another candelabra design attributed to Manocchi in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London that is described as 'in the antique Roman taste' (see Ward-Jackson, op.cit., II, pp.154-5). The inscription on both this sheet and Adam vol.26/110 is probably by Manocchi. Robert Adam possibly used these drawings as a source adapted for his Luton candelabra of c.1775, which he described as 'Bronzes executed in Italy in the Style of Mich. Angelo' (see The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, London, 1773-79, part III, pl.VIII).
There is a candle design by Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82) of c.1777 in the Drawings Collection (see J. Lever, Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, L-N, London, 1973, p.64), which was attributed to Charles Heathcote Tatham and others in album five of the Hardwick drawings in the RIBA (see 5/4). There is another candelabra design attributed to Manocchi in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London that is described as 'in the antique Roman taste' (see Ward-Jackson, op.cit., II, pp.154-5). The inscription on both this sheet and Adam vol.26/110 is probably by Manocchi. Robert Adam possibly used these drawings as a source adapted for his Luton candelabra of c.1775, which he described as 'Bronzes executed in Italy in the Style of Mich. Angelo' (see The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, London, 1773-79, part III, pl.VIII).
Level
Drawing
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