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Carlo Marsuppini was the chancellor of the Florentine Republic, and also a humanist.\r\n\r\nThis relief was produced in the Victoria and Albert Museum, possibly by the Department for the Sale of Casts (later the Casts Department).","physicalDescription":"Panel with inscription in Latin","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Desiderio da Settignano","id":"A2380"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":"original"},{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"caster","id":"AAT25257"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"V&A","id":"AUTH347589"},"association":{"text":"cast-maker","id":"x41023"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"plaster","id":"AAT14922"}],"techniques":[{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Plaster cast","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Plaster Cast","id":"THES270451"},{"text":"Monuments","id":"THES252966"},{"text":"Medieval and renaissance","id":"THES271264"}],"styles":[{"text":"Renaissance","id":"AAT21140"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"SM005","id":"THES400370"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Relief","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Florence","id":"x28848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"original"},{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1453-1461","earliest":"1453-01-01","latest":"1461-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"original"},{"date":{"text":"1904","earliest":"1904-01-01","latest":"1904-12-31"},"association":{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"31","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approximately","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"100","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"approximately","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"12","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"SISTE VIDES MAGNVM QVAE SERVANT MARMORA VATEM\r\nI  INGENIO CVIVS NON SATIS ORBIS ERAT\r\nQVAE NATVRA POLVS QVAE MOS FERAT OMNIA NOVIT\r\nKAROLVS AETATIS GLORIA MAGNA SVAE.\r\nAVSONIAE ET GRAIAE CRINES NVNC SOLVITE MVSAE\r\nOCCIDIT HEV VESTRI FAMA DECVS QVE CHORI.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Stay and see the marbles which enshrine a great sage, one for whose mind the was not world enough. Carlo, the great glory of  his age, knew all the nature, the heavens, and human conduct have to tell. O Roman and Greek muses, now unloose your hair. Alas, the fame and splendour of your choir is dead.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Composed by the humanist, Francesco Griffolini, in two letters to Piero de Medici written in June and July 1459."}],"objectHistory":"This relief was produced in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The museum also owns a plaster cast of the tomb, which was purchased from Oronzio Lelli in  in 1891.","historicalContext":"Giorgio Vasari describes the tomb in his <i>Life</i> of Desiderio da Settignano, 'He made the tomb of messer Carlo Marsuppini of Arezzo in S. Croce, which not only astonished the artists and intelligent persions who looked at it at that time, but continues to astonish those who see it now.'\r\n\r\nCarlo Marsuppini was the chancellor of the Florentine Republic, and also a humanist. He was known for his letters and poems. Pope Nicholas V instructed him in 1452 to translate Homer's <i>Iliad</i> into Latin, but this project was largely incomplete when Marsuppini died.\r\n\r\nThe Museum operated a Department for the Sale of Casts (later the Casts Department), which produced commercial casts on demand, and which may have been responsible for producing this cast. This department produced plaster casts and electrotypes for sale to art schools and members of the public. It is unclear if this cast would have been on display or for sale, as the inscription is also on the full cast of the Marsuppini tomb.","briefDescription":"Relief with inscription from the Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini at Santa Croce in Florence, plaster cast, after original by Desiderio da Settignano, 1453-1461","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessey, John. <i> Italian Renaissance Sculpture</i>.  London: 1996, pp. 377-378."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bull, George (trans.). <i>Lives of the Artists: A Selection by Giorgio Vasari</i>. New York: 1971."}],"production":"19th century plaster cast after original date 1453-1461 by Desiderio da Settignano","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["REPRO.1904A-37"],"accessionNumberNum":"37","accessionNumberPrefix":"REPRO","accessionYear":1904,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW2597"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2010-11-08","availableToBook":false}}