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The statue was commissioned by Conte Girolamo III di Silvio Martinengo (1686-1765), a Venetian senator and official, who was responsible for completing the reconstruction of the palazzo, and completed in 1764. The suit of armour represented in the model, traditionally supposed to have belonged to Antonio I, is preserved in the Armeria Reale at Turin. There is no record of the name of the sculptor of the statue. According to Sansovino, Antonio I Martinengo (d. 1473) was active as a condottiere in the service of the Venetian Republic in 1436-43, and in return for his services was created \"gentilhuomo Vinitiano\" and awarded an annual sum for himself and his descendants. \r\n\r\nThe inscribed date on the statue has been subject to some discussion and can be read as 1652 or 1452 alternatively. However the form of the base and the pose of the figure are consistent with a dating in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. \r\n\r\nThe finished statue was severely damaged by bombing in 1944-5.","physicalDescription":"The figure of Antonio I Martinengo of Brescia (d. 1473), bearded and partly armed, with right arm outstretched and a scroll or baton in the right hand, and left leg advanced, on a naturalistic base. Set on a irregular oval pedestal with volutes, and is supported by a metal bar. With an inscription in Latin on the base.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Terracotta","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2017JY2311"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES396095"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statuette","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Brescia","id":"x35127"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1652","earliest":"1652-01-01","latest":"1652-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Sir J.C. 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A spirited work in terra-cotta.\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Statuette, terracotta study, Antonio I Martinengo, Italy (Brescia), second half of 18th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington Museum acquired in the Year 1878.</u> London, 187, p. 31"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, E., and Longhurst, Margaret, H., <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture.</u> London: V&A, 1932, p. 106"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri, <u>Storia di Brescia.</u> Brescia, 1963, II, pp. 293-4"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hayward, John. 'A Terracotta Modello in the Victoria and Albert Museum' <u>Armi Antiche</u> 1966"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, John, assisted by Lightbown, Ronald. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum.</u> London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, vol. II, cat. no. 721. pp. 672-3; vol. 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