19.5 Inches High x 8.5 Inches Wide x 2.5 Inches Deep
A pair of delightful angels singing from the High Altar of St. Anthony. It is part of the group called “Altare del Santo” that was created around 1447-1450. The group is comprised of twenty-nine pieces of bronze sculpture that includes twelve reliefs with angels singing and playing instruments such as this one and Item #668. The altar was dismantled at the end of the 16th century, and the present altar was assembled in 1895 as a reconstruction of Donatello’s altar. As the original arrangement was not recorded, the current altar may not be arranged exactly as Donatello had intended.
Artist: Donatello
Museum/Location: Basilica di Sant’Antonio, Padua
Origin: Basilica di Sant’Antonio, Padua
Time Period: Renaissance, c. 1447-1450
1911 Catalog ID # – 8406
Sources:
DK Eyewitness Travel. “Basilica di Sant’Antonio.” DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy. Penguin, 2015, pp. 162. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=VoUgCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
“The Presbitery and Main Altar.” Saint Anthony of Padua, http:///en/content/presbitery-and-main-altar.
“Works in the Basilica di Sant’Antonio in Padua.” Web Gallery of Art, https://www.wga.hu/html_m/d/donatell/2_mature/padova/index.html.