Jupiter

ca. between 1550 and 1575

Benvenuto Cellini Italian, 1500-1571

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Jupiter

Artwork Date ca. between 1550 and 1575

Artist Benvenuto Cellini

Life Dates 1500-1571

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 11 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 3 inches (29.2 × 15.9 × 7.6 cm) Including base: 13 × 6 1/4 × 3 inches (33 × 15.9 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mrs. Allan Shelden

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 38.102

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Provenance

Huldschinsky collection and sale (Berlin, Germany)

acquired from (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, New York, USA)

Elizabeth (Mrs. Allan) Shelden

1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bode, Wilhelm von. Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky. Cat. no. 71, p. 4 [as Florentine School, ca. 1550, "Nackter Mann (Neptune?)".]

Cassirer, Paul and Hugo Helbing. Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky. 1928, p. 183 (pl. LXI).

Valentiner, W.R. "Two Unknown Bronze Statuettes by Cellini" Art Quarterly 2 (Winter 1939): p. 34.

Valentiner, W. R. Studies of Italian Renaissance Sculpture. London, 1950, pp. 231-232, 237-238.

"Giove." Le Vie del Mondo 16, no. 4 (April 1954): p. 366 (ill.) (as by Benvenuto Cellini).

Comparisons. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto. Toronto, January 1957, no. 15a.

Masterpieces of Art In Memory of W.R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, pp. 23, 45, no. 17 (ill.).

Hackenbroch, Y. Bronzes and other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1962, xxvi, p. 18.

Weihrauch, H. Europaische Bronzestatuetten 15. - 18. Jarhundert. Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 180-181, 505, no. 232.

Draper in New York. 1977, p. 165.

Avery, C. and S. Barbaglia. L'Opera Completa de Cellini. Milan, 1981, p. 104, no. 157.

Pope-Hennessy, J. Cellini. New York, 1985, pp. 105, 303, no. 18 [rejecting Valentiner's attribution].

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, I, cat. 107.

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