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    Bireno and Olimpia by Ferdinando Tacca
    Ferdinando Tacca. Bireno and Olimpia, 1640–50. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001962

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    Bireno and Olimpia

    by Ferdinando Tacca

    Provenance

    Daniel Katz, acquired in London 1969 [according to 2002 telephone conversation between Katz and Jane Neet]. Plato Investments, Ltd., Zurich, by 1993; sold to the Art Institute through Daniel Katz, Ltd., London, 1993.

    Exhibition history

    Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Giambologna, 1529–1608: Sculptor to the Medici, 19 August - 10 September 1978, traveled to London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 5 October – 16 November 1978, and Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2 December 1978 – 28 January, 1979, cat. 73. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Il Seicento Fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, 21 December 1986 – 4 May, 1987, cat. 4.37. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, 6 June – 29 September 2002, traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, 9 November 2002 – 2 February, 2003, and Detroit Institute of Arts, 16 March – 8 June, 2003, cat. 87.

    Publications

    Charles Avery, Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture (Mt. Kisco, New York, 1987), p. 230, fig. 264. Anthea Brook, "La scultura fiorentina tra il Giambologna e il Foggini" in Il Seicento Fiorentino: Arte a Firenze da Ferdinando I a Cosimo III, exhib. cat., Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1986, vol. 2, p. 74. Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (2001), pp. 5,12, fig. 2. Bruce Boucher, “Bireno and Olimpia,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 60-61, ill.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Ferdinando Tacca (Italian, 1619–1686)
    Date
    1640–50
    Medium
    Bronze with traces of red-gold lacquer
    Dimensions
    37.9 × 39.9 cm (14 7/8 × 15 11/16 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment; through prior gift of The George F. Harding Collection
    Accession no.
    1993.348

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