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Karl Friedrich Voigt

Portrait Plaque of Pietro Tenerani, Sculptor, 1853

Description

Maker

Karl Friedrich Voigt, 1800-1874, German

Title

Portrait Plaque of Pietro Tenerani, Sculptor

Year

1853

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

P. Tenerani, Scultore

Type

Medals

Credit

Museum Collection

Object Number

30.091

Exhibition History

Pilgrims of Beauty

February 3 - July 8, 2012

This small bronze plaque pays tribute to the esteemed Italian sculptor Pietro Tenerani, one of the chief successors of Antonio Canova in creating marble statues in the Neoclassical style. It is one of a series of portrait medallions that the German sculptor Karl Friedrich Voigt designed to honor prominent 19th-century artists and intellectuals. Voigt and Tenerani had become close friends while the former was studying in Rome in the 1820s.

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