statue is part of > Constantine the Great CensusID: 152034

statue is part of > Constantine the Great CensusID: 152034

Colossal Left Hand - statue
is part of > Constantine the Great
CensusID: 152034
Alias
lamano
Manus Aerea
Location
Roma, Musei Capitolini
Inventory no. inv. MC1070; Esedra di Marco Aurelio
Description
Class
Type
Material
sculpture
statue
bronze
gold
Present Condition damaged/fragmentary
restored
Original
yes
Number
01
Descriptive Details hand
left
colossal
Dimensions
length: 150 cm
History
Date of Creation
360, around
Style
Constantinian
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
unknown
Condition when first known damaged/fragmentary
Reason
happened to be around
Documentation
Princeton, University Library: > inv. MS Garret 158 > fol. 13 v (Census)
Modena, Bibl. Estense: > Codex Mutinensis > fol. 031 v (Census)
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
post 1154-1471
Location Roma, Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano
Documentation:
Roma, Musei Capitolini: > Inscription of Sixtus IV of 1471 (Census)
Date
post 1471:1:17-1490
Location Roma, Palazzo dei Conservatori (ante 1544)
Documentation:
> C.I.L., vol. VI, no. 931 (Census)
> Tolentino's letter to Baldassare Taccone > p. 252 > A (Census)
Date
post 1490
Location Roma, Palazzo dei Conservatori (ante 1544)
Documentation:
Real Monasterio El Escorial: > Antigualhas > fol. 30 r > C (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 268.F - p. 276.A > p. 272.G - p. 273.A (Census)
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 268.G - p. 276.A > p. 272.G - p. 273.A
(Census)
> Fulvio 1543 > fol. 051 r > lines 22-25 (Census)
> Fulvio 1513 > book 1 > fol. 20 r > lines 11-13 (Census)
> Fulvio 1527 > book 2 > fol. XXI r > B (Census)
Oxford, Bodleian Library: > MS. Canon. Ital. 138 > fol. 027 r > lines 1418 (Census)
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 541 (Corpus Winckelmann)
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Date
Location
1513:9:13
Roma, Capitoline Theater of 1513
Relationships
Census Document(s):
Cambridge, St Catherine's College Library: > Magister Gregorius > ch. 06
> Edificazione di molti palazzi e tempi di Roma > fol. 03 v > l. 03-09
München, Bayer. Staatsbibl.: > inv. Cgm 1279 > fol. 06 v > lines 1-9
Modena, Bibl. Estense: > Codex Mutinensis > fol. 031 v
Princeton, University Library: > inv. MS Garret 158 > fol. 13 v
Roma, Musei Capitolini: > Inscription of Sixtus IV of 1471
> C.I.L., vol. VI, no. 931
> Tolentino's letter to Baldassare Taccone > p. 252 > A
> Prospettivo Milanese > tercet 066
> Albertini 1510 (Opusculum) > book 2 > ch. 10 > fol. Q v > lines 20-22
> Fulvio 1513 > book 1 > fol. 20 r > lines 11-13
> Fulvio 1527 > book 2 > fol. XXI r > B
> Fulvio 1543 > fol. 051 r > lines 22-25
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 268.G - p. 276.A > p. 269.C - p. 270.A
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 268.G - p. 276.A > p. 272.G - p. 273.A
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 268.F - p. 276.A > p. 269.C - p. 270.A
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 268.F - p. 276.A > p. 272.G - p. 273.A
Oxford, Bodleian Library: > MS. Canon. Ital. 138 > fol. 027 r > lines 14-18
Real Monasterio El Escorial: > Antigualhas > fol. 30 r > C
> Vacca 1594 > no. 071 (p. 30)
Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 541
References
Bibliography:
> Henry Stuart Jones: A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of
Rome, vol. 2, The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Oxford 1926 > pp. 174-175, no. 9
> Wolfgang Helbig: Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 4 vols.,
Tübingen 1963-1972 > vol. II, p. 381
> Wolfgang Helbig: Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 3.
Auflage, hg. unter Mitwirkung von Walter Amelung, Emil Reisch, Fritz Weege, I-II, Leipzig 1912-1913
> I, p. 548, no. 960
> Helbig, Wolfgang: Fuehrer durch die oeffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertuemer in Rom, I-II,
2. Aufl., Leipzig 1899 > I, p. 425, no. 632
> Buddensieg, Tilmann: Die Statuenstiftung Sixtus' IV. im Jahre 1471, in: Römisches Jahrbuch für
Kunstgeschichte XX, 1983, pp. 33-73 > fig. 6
> Michaelis, Adolf: Storia della collezione Capitolina di antichità fino all'inaugurazione del museo
(1734), in: Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Roemische Abtheilung
VI, 1891, pp. 3-66 > p. 14
> Paul Borchardt: The Sculpture of the Front of the Lateran as Described by Benjamin of Tudela and
Magister Gregorius, in: The Journal of Roman Studies 26 (1936), pp. 68-70 > pp. 68-70
> Valentini, Roberto & Zucchetti, Giuseppe: Codice topografico della città di Roma, I-IV, Rome 19401953 > III, p. 90, pp. 149-150, p. 196; IV, p. 73 and p. 85
> Spring, Peter: Index to Ancient Works of Art Known in the Middle Ages, Manuscript Index in the
Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute > Hand, colossal (left)
> Ashby, Thomas: Addenda and Corrigenda to Sixteenth-Century Drawings of Roman buildings
attributed to Andreas Coner, in: Papers of the British School at Rome VI, 1913, pp. 184-210 > p. 196
> Janitschek, Hubert: Das Capitolinische Theater vom Jahre 1513. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des
Festwesens in der Renaissance, in: Repertorium fuer Kunstwissenschaft V, 1882, pp. 259-270 > p.
263
> Phyllis Pray Bober: Census of Antique Works of Art Known to the Renaissance - Census Cards >
Sculpture: Bronzes
> Nesselrath, Arnold: Simboli di Roma, in: Da Pisanello alla nascità dei Musei Capitolini. L'Antico a
Roma alla vigilia del Rinascimento, (catalogo della mostra Roma, Musei Capitolini, 24.5.1988 19.7.1988), Roma 1988, pp. 195-205 > pp. 40, 218ff, no. 67
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> Götz Lahusen, Edilberto Formigli: Römische Bildnisse aus Bronze. Kunst und Technik, Munich 2001
> pp. 315-317, no. 196
> Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, Adolf H. Borbein et al.: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums,
Katalog der antiken Denkmäler, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johannes
Irmscher, Max Kunze, Mainz 2006 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlass IV.2) > p.
323, no. 740
Comment
The hand was holding the "Palla Sansonis" (cf. there) and were thus thought to belong together.
added:
Thomas Fröhlich
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