Tigris - statue CensusID: 151561

Tigris - statue
CensusID: 151561
Alias
Arno; River God; Devero
Location
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono
Inventory no. Scala 600 (Lippold 1956); inv. 168
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
Dimensions
sculpture
statue
marble: parian
fully restored
no (?)
01
unit, 1
figure
male
seminude
beard
wreath of fruit
reclining
drapery
vase
lion protome in vase
ring around vase
diamond ring
Medici ring
river god
Tigris
Arno
height: 1.31 m
length: 2.48 m
History
Date of Creation
Style
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
Condition when first known
Reason
Documentation
Preservation Event(s)
Hadrian
Hadrianic
unknown
damaged/fragmentary
happened to be around
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono: > inv. 168 (Census)
Date
ante 1521
Action
damaged
Person responsible unknown
Date
post 1512-ante 1522
Action
fully restored
Person responsible Leo X
Documentation:
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono: > inv. 168 (Census)
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
Location
Date
Location
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ante 1521
untraced
post 1521
Roma, Belvedere, Cortile delle Statue
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Documentation:
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album I > fol. 62 r
(Census)
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono: > inv. 168 (Census)
untraced: > Iter Italicum > p. 49 - p. 50 (Belvedere Statue Court) > p.
49.F (Census)
Relationships
Census Document(s):
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Cortile Ottagono: > inv. 168
untraced: > Iter Italicum > p. 49 - p. 50 (Belvedere Statue Court) > p. 49.F
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album I > fol. 28 v
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album I > fol. 62 r
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 115.B - p. 122.E > p. 117.D
Firenze, Bibl. Moreniana: > Libro del disegno > Chapitolo 1
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 115.A - p. 121.G > p. 117.B
> Vasari 1568 > introduction > p. 13
References
Bibliography:
> Die Sculpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, ed. by Walther Amelung, Georg Lippold, Berlin et al.
1903-56, vol. 3.2., Die Sculpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, ed. by Georg Lippold, Berlin et al.
1956 > vol. III.2, pp. 36-38
> Wolfgang Helbig: Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 4 vols.,
Tübingen 1963-1972 > vol. I, p. 13, no. 14
> Brummer, Hans H.: The Statue Court in the Vatican Belvedere, (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis.
Stockholm Studies in the History of Art XX), Stockholm 1970 > pp. 186-190
> Raffaello in Vaticano, (catalogo della mostra Roma, Musei Vaticani, Braccio del Carlo Magno,
16.10.1984 - 16.1.1985), Milano 1984 > pp. 100-101, no. 61 (Georg Daltrop)
> Nesselrath, Arnold: The Venus Belvedere: An Episode in Restoration, in: Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes L, 1987, pp. 205-214 > p. 206, n. 7
> Ruth Rubinstein: The Statue of the River God Tigris or Arno, in: Il Cortile delle Statue. Der
Statuenhof im Vatikan, ed. Matthias Winner, Bernard Andreae, Carlo Pietrangeli, Mainz 1998, pp.
275-286 > passim
Comment
The history of the provenance and the restoration can be reconstructed from the imprint on the
restored vase which the river god is holding in his right hand. For a description of the pieces from
another ancient sculpture which were used to complete the statue cf. bibl. Nesselrath 1987.
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