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Design for a grille (possibly for the Cappella del Tesoro in the Cathedral at Naples)

Maker

Cosimo Fanzago (artist)
1591-1678

Title

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, blue-grey wash, executed using a ruler and compass on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.109

Mode of Acquisition

Anthony Blunt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This design has been discussed as an early study for the bronze and brass grille of the Cappella del Tesoro in the Cathedral of Naples, executed by the architect and sculptor Cosimo Fanzago between 1625 and 1650. Considerable differences between the drawing and the grille, however, suggest that it was preparatory for another wrought-iron gate, such as the one for the chapel of Monterrey in Salamanca, now lost.

Provenance

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), 23 May 1974 (£150.72); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Exhibition History

Special Display - Neapolitan drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 06/10/2011-26/01/2012

Literature

Causa, Stefano, San Gennaro patrono dell arti: conversazioni in cappella 2016, 2016
pp.24-25
ill. on p. 23

Fischer, Chris and Joachim Meyer, Neapolitan drawings: Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2006
n. 5 on p. 56, under no. 11

Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte, 24 October 1984 - 14 April 1985, and the Museo Pignatelli, 6 December 1984 - 14 April 1985 Naples 1984
no. 5.20
ill. on p. 328 ...More

Strazzullo, Franco, La Real Cappella del Tesoro di S. Gennaro, Naples 1978
p. 160 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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