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    Samson and the Lion by Cristoforo Stati
    Cristoforo Stati. Samson and the Lion, 1604–7. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001975

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    Samson and the Lion

    by Cristoforo Stati

    Publications

    Bertha Harris Wiles, The Fountains of Florentine Sculptors and their Followers from Donatello to Bernini (Harvard University Press, 1933), pp. 13-39, 64, 124–25. Anthony Radcliffe, “Two Bronzes: from the Circle of Bernini,” Apollo 108, 202 (December 1978), pp. 422–23, fig. 8. Andrea Bachi, Scultura del ‘600 a Roma (Milan: Longanesi, 1996), p. 845. Edward L. Goldberg, “Artistic Relations between the Medici and the Spanish courts, 1587–1621: Part II,” Burlington Magazine 138, 1121 (August 1996), pp. 530–32. David Eskerdjian, “Scultura del ‘600 a Roma: Andrea Bacchi with the collaboration of Susanna Zanuso,” Apollo (August 1998), p. 58. Ian Wardropper, “Cristoforo Stati’s Samson and the Lion: Florentine style and Spanish patronage,” Apollo 150, 451 (September 1999), pp. 30–37. Sarah Walker Schroth, “The Duke of Lerma’s Palace in Madrid: A Reconstruction of the original setting for Cristoforo Stati’s Samson and the Lion,” Apollo 144, 474 (August 2001), pp. 11–21. Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 156, 475 (September 2001), pp. 3–4, 11–12, fig. 1.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Cristoforo Stati (Italian, 1556–1619)
    Date
    1604–7
    Medium
    Marble
    Dimensions
    210 × 112 × 84 cm (82 11/16 × 44 1/8 × 33 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    large scale
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Chester D. Tripp Fund
    Accession no.
    1997.335

    Provenance

    Francesco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, Madrid, possibly from 1607–1636 [according to Scroth, p. 11]. Swiss private collection, before 1996 [according to copy of original dealer solicitation in curatorial file]. Thomas Howard-Sneyd, London, by 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996; accessioned by the Art Institute, 1997.

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