Artist:
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Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli
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Title:
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Immaculate Madonna
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Date:
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c.1710
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Medium:
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Marble
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Dimensions:
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22 x 11 x 7 in. (55.88 x 27.94 x 17.78 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The Driscoll Art Accessions Endowment Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 308
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Ponsonelli was the foremost sculptor active in Genoa in the first third of the 1700s. He worked for patrons all over Europe, and according to written sources he even sent sculptures to Latin America. This sculpture is his only work in an American museum.
In order to accentuate the supernatural vision of the Immaculate Madonna standing on clouds, on the crescent moon and a dragon (symbol of the defeated sins), the Virgin's clothes are shown in tumultuous movement, darting off in different directions with speedy lines. The energetic and abstract drapery movement was a characteristic of Baroque painting in Genoa as well. Ponsonelli masterfully pushes the divine tornado of textiles into the third dimension, and takes it to new extremes.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Ponsonelli, Giacomo Antonio
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Nationality:
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Italian
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Life Dates:
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Italian, 1654 - 1735
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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White sticker on back of PR side near bottom with typed numbers: [79152/1] taken off during conserva
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Classification:
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Sculpture
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Physical Description:
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Madonna stands upon dragon and clouds with hands placed to chest
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Italy, , ,
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Accession #:
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2010.77
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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