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Allegorical Figure Group „Malerei und Musik“ / „La Pittura, e Musica“

Lost Art-ID
596677
Artist / Creator
Bertos, Francesco
Birth
1693
Death
1739
Place of activity
Rom
Title
Allegorical Figure Group „Malerei und Musik“ / „La Pittura, e Musica“
Dating
1732
Object type
Sculpture
Group of reported objects
Sculpture
Material / Technique
Marble / cut
Description

A finely chiselled group of allegorical figures carved in marble, formed by a total of ten figures grouped around(?) a female centaur.

The figures form allegories of the seven thematic groups:

- the mimicry, which depresses envy, probably holding up a roundish object that looks like a piece of a mural crown, but was probably the remnant of a damaged face mask

- the heroic virtue

- the drawing

- painting that rests on the thought, that copies the imitation

- the music

- the time that elevates the concert

- the study.

The work is damaged. The details of the attributes that distinguish the allegories have not survived.

Allegedly, because of the apparent impossibility of this work, the sculptor was brought before the Inquisition under the accusation of having collaborated with the devil, since the human hand alone was incapable of producing such a work.

Provenance
1732 with its counterpart, the allegorical group of figures "Sculpture, Arithmetic and Architecture", paid for (and in all probability commissioned by the artist) by the Field Marshal General in Venetian service Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (* 1661, † 1747); since 1736 recorded in the inventories of his collection; in February 1739 transferred to the family palace in Berlin's Wilhelmstraße occupied by his nephew Adolf Friedrich von der Schulenburg (* 1685, † 1741); after the latter's death in the Battle of Mollwitz in possession of his brother Christian Günther (* 1684, † 1765) Fideikommiss Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg; at the time of the compilation of the printed inventory Berlin/Hehlen (c. 1750[? ]) until at least c. 1774-76 in the family palace in Berlin Wilhelmstr. 77; by succession to the Wolfsburg branch of the von der Schulenburg family; before 1942 Wolfsburg Palace (until 1932 Gardelegen County, Province of Saxony; then Gifhorn County, Province of Hanover; today City of Wolfsburg); in 1897 described as damaged by Parisius/Brinkmann together with a second marble group and two similar groups of Bertos cast in bronze in Wolfsburg Castle; then moved to the newly built Neumühle Castle near Tangeln, municipality of Beetzendorf in the Altmark district of Salzwedel; probably left there in 1945 when the von der Schulenburg family fled
Literature / Source
Dokumentiert in der Sammlung des Feldmarschalls M. J. von der Schulenburg und seiner Erben in Venedig und Berlin durch eine Vielzahl von Inventaren und andere zeitgenössische Quellen; Parisius, A./Brinkmann, A.: Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Gardelegen, Hrsg.: Historische Commission der Provinz Sachsen, Halle a. d. Saale 1897, S. 203 [als „leider beschädigt“]; Binion, A.: La galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg, Milano 1990, S. 127/28; Avery, Ch.: The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos (1678-1741) and the Art of Sculpture, Turin, 2008, S. 14, 17, 18/19, 43/44, 69, 78-83, bes. Diagram 2, S. 82 sowie 190, Kat.-nr. 60; Krellig, H.: Feldmarschall und Kunstsammler. Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg (1661–1747). Ein unbekannter Bestand von Kunstwerken aus seiner Sammlung im Besitz der Grafen von der Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, S. 68
Published since
19.11.2021
Contact
Graf von der Schulenburg
Position
Verwaltung
Phone
+49 (0) 5363 97190
E-Mail
info@graf-schulenburg.de
Circumstances of loss reported as
Looted property
Search Request, Person

Schulenburg-Wolfsburg, Günther Graf von der

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