Figurina raffigurante un personaggio maschile

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Figurine depicting a male character

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm
Altezza: 18.5
Larghezza: 12
Profondità: 6

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù

Figurine depicting a standing male character with semi-lunate headgear, with raised arms, gorgiera and ear discs engraved

Vaso con ansa a staffa a forma di felino

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Pot with bracket shaped like a feline

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù
Vaso lenticolare decorato con motivi geometrici incisi

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Lenticular vase decorated with engraved geometric motifs

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù

Lenticular vase decorated with engraved geometric motifs, with a neck shaped like an otaria’s head

Fiasca discoidale con due esseri fantastici a rilievo su fondo a “goose flesh”

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Titolo dell'opera:

Disc-shaped flask with figures

Acquisizione:

Collezione Missioni Cattoliche Americane 1893

Author/ School/ Dating:

Disc-shaped flask with figures

Epoca:

XI-XV - 1001 - 1500

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 19; Diametro: 13.5

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Technique and Dimensions:

Terracotta a stampo

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Chimù
Descrizione:

Fantastic figure (or anthropomorphized tool) with a fish's head, fishing for a tumi-fish (or a coin-axe-fish) using a serpentine line ending in a bird's beak hook. The iconography seems to represent the zoomorphic soul of fishing tools or their animal "alter egos". (Aimi-Minelli) The Quechua word "tumi" indicates the semi-lunar knife typical of Andean civilizations. Grey-black flask with cylindrical neck, lateral ribbon-shaped handle and flat bottom. The front and rear walls are decorated with moldings with two fantasy beings on a "goose flesh" background.

Vaso fischiatore a due camere decorate con motivi geometrici a rilievo

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Two-chamber whistling vase decorated with geometric patterns in relief

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù

Two-chamber whistling vase decorated with geometric patterns in relief, with bridge handle; a room is surmounted by a zoomorphic head (dog?)

Vaso a forma di salamandra

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Vase in the shape of a salamander

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù

Vase in the shape of a salamander with bracket handle decorated with small birds in relief

Vaso globulare decorato con motivi a onda

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Globular vase decorated with wave patterns

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù

Globular vase decorated with wave patterns in relief and two ornithomorphic plastic figurines at the base of the bracket loop

Vaso con ansa a staffa a due camere a forma di pappagalli

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Titolo dell'opera:

Ornitomorphic bi-chamber stirrup spout vessel

Acquisizione:

J. Puccio 1931

Author/ School/ Dating:

Ornitomorphic bi-chamber stirrup spout vessel

Epoca:

XI-XV - 1001 - 1500

Misure:

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 20; Larghezza: 17; Profondità: 14

Provenienza (nazione):

Perù

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

Ultimi prestiti:

Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova/ Castello D'Albertis - 1972-1977<br>Due mondi a confronto-I segni della storia - Genova/ Palazzo Ducale - 1992

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Chimù
Descrizione:

Chimù black bicameral vase with distinct foot and flat bottom. The chambers depict two parrots with large concentric incised eyes, joined by the ventral connection and stirrup-like handle. A scalar relief element is molded on the joint between the handle and neck.

Vaso con ansa a staffa a forma di cuy

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Cuy-shaped vase with bracket loop

Technique and Dimensions:

Moulded terracotta

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Chimù

Cuy-shaped vase with bracket loop (guinea pig used for feeding)

Pierre Puget "The Virgin and Child"

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Author/ School/ Dating:

Pierre Puget (Marsiglia, 1620-1694)

Object Type:

Sculpture

Technique and Dimensions:

Carrara marble carved and polished, 143 x 74 x 78.5 cm

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Pierre Puget "The Virgin and Child"

 

This sculpture, also called "Madonna Carrega", comes from Palazzo Tobia Pallavicino in via Garibaldi. It is one of the masterpieces produced in Genoa by the great Marseillaise sculptor, Pierre Puget who while in the city, coming from Rome, enjoyed one of the most productive seasons of his life, from 1661 to 1668, and participated in the introduction of the Baroque to the Ligurian capital. This work (about 1681) of the highest emotional impact, is influenced by the work of Michelangelo (e.g. the Madonna of Bruges) and also Bernini. The artist worked for a long time in Rome. It is interesting to note that the child appears as a "normal" child, plump and well looked after and happy, he seeks the attention of his mother, while Maria looks into the distance, certainly foreshadowing her dramatic future.

 

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