Pope Alexander VIII

between 1691 and 1700

Lorenzo Ottoni Italian, 1658-1736

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Pope Alexander VIII

Artwork Date between 1691 and 1700

Artist Lorenzo Ottoni

Life Dates 1658-1736

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 Marble

Dimensions Overall (bust): 24 3/4 × 24 1/2 × 15 3/4 inches (62.9 × 62.2 × 40 cm) Including base: 30 × 24 1/2 × 15 3/4 inches (76.2 × 62.2 × 40 cm) Socle (height): 6 3/4 inches (17.1 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund

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. 37.141

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Provenance

1937, sold by (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, USA) Elenore J. Mortimer Sale, no. 172

1937-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) through F. Kleinberger & Co. (New York, New York, USA)

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Published References

Pascoli, L. Vite de pittori, scultori, e architetti viventi (dai manuscritti 1383 e 1743 della Biblioteca Communale 'Augusta'di Perugia), ed. V. Martinelli. Turin, 1981, p. 214.

Spike, J. T. Barque Portraiture in Italy: Works from North American Collections. Exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum. Sarasota and Hartford, 1984, p. 166 and appendix no. 11, p. 205 (ill.) [as attributed to Domenico Guidi].

Olszewski, E.J. "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) in America." Journal of the History of Collections 1, no. 1 (1989): pp. 37, 39 (fig. 8).

Fusco, P. "A Portrait medallion of Pope Alexander VIII by Lorenzo Ottoni in J. Paul Getty Museum." The Burlington Magazine 139 (1997): pp. 872-876.

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, II, cat. 142.

Giometti, Cristiano. "Il Modello del Battesimo di Domenico Guidi e proposte per una committenza Albani a Guidi e Ottoni." Studi Sul Settecento Romano 19 (2003): pp. 51-65.

Brunetti, Vittoria. "Ritratti papali di Lorenzo Ottoni: l'Urbano VIII di Pesaro, l'Innocenzo XII di Ancona e il Clemente XI di Bologna." Annali della Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon 15, no. 7 (2015): p. 285.

Brunetti, Vittoria. "Gianfrancesco Albani, Lorenzo Ottoni e le Marche." In Il Cardinale Gianfrancesco Albani e le arti tra Roma e Urbino: il ritratto ritrovato, ed. Lucia Simonato. Milan, 2017, pp. 97–99 (ill.).

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attributed to Lorenzo Ottoni, Pope Alexander VIII, between 1691 and 1700, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund, 37.141.