Virtue Triumphant over Vice

ca. between 1710 and 1720

Giovanni da Bologna, Artist Massimiliano Soldani, Artist

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Florence, Level 2, South Wing

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Title Virtue Triumphant over Vice

Artwork Date ca. between 1710 and 1720

Makers Giovanni da Bologna (Artist) Italian, 1529-1608 Massimiliano Soldani (Artist) Italian, 1656-1740

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 12 3/4 × 6 1/8 × 5 3/8 inches (32.4 × 15.6 × 13.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions 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. 79.24

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until 1978, Lord Nelson's Family (Roche Court, England)

(Daniel Katz, London, England)

1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lankeit, K. "Ein Serie barocker Antiken-Nachbilgunden aus der Werkstatt des Massimiliano Soldani." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts: Romisch Abteilung 65 (1958): pp. 186-198.

Pope-Hennessy, J. and A. Radcliffe. The Frick Collection, New York. An Illustrated Catalogue, III, Sculpture - Italian. New York, 1970, pp. 240-244.

Avery, C. "Soldani's Small Bronze Statuettes after 'Old Master' Sculpture in Florence." Kunst des Barock in der Toskana. Munich, 1976, pp. 165-172.

The Bronze Figure in Italy. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts and The J.B. Speed Art Museum. St. Petersburg, FL, and Louisville, 1981, no. 28 (ill.).

Darr, A.P. "Florentine Baroque Bronzes by Susini, Soldani, and Foggini." Bulletin of the DIA 61, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1983): pp. 4-17, fig. 7 (ill.).

Die Bronzen der Kurstlichen Sammlung Liechtenstein. Exh. cat., Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik in der Schirn Kunsthalle. Frankfurt, 1986, pp. 234-245.

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 19 (ill.).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 151.

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Massimiliano Soldani; after Giovanni da Bologna, Virtue Triumphant over Vice, ca. between 1710 and 1720, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, 79.24.