IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14013 accession number: M.11-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze statuette of Braccio di Bartolo, known as Il Nano Morgante (c. 1535 - after 1594), court dwarf and a favourite of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in Florence. Il Morgante was the most famous of the five jesters in Cosimo's court. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Leitch & Kerin by 15 Sept. 1937, when purchased (invoice: £35) by Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC; bequeathed to his sister, the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Boscawen Collection creditline: Bequeathed by the Hon. Mrs Pamela Sherek, from the collection of the late Lt Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, DSO, MC, in his memory STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14013 PEOPLE ------------------- Morgante dwarf TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast and patinated casting (process) TECHNIQUES ---------- patination CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1560 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1560 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 16th Century, Mid-17th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Giambologna (Jean Boulogne) maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes CITATIONS -------- The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge European Sculpture, Works of Art and Maiolica, 10th December 1997 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_11_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 525 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_11_1997.jpg height: 724 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_11_1997.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 525 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_11_1997.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 250 pixels