{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O349920"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O349920/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2017KC9715/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2017KC9715/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2017KC9715","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018KY8862","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O349920/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O349920","accessionNumber":"7623-1861","objectType":"Bust","titles":[{"title":"An Unknown Man","type":"generic title"},{"title":"Portrait of a Man","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"This figure of a portrait of a man is made by an unknown artist in Florence in the second half of the 16th century.\r\n\r\nThe figure does not fall into any of the normal classes of portrait. Its free and frankly naturalistic modelling and its cutting at the level of the hips make it improbable as a preliminary model for a funeral statue in bronze or marble. It may have been made as part of one of the frequent but ephemeral festival decorations that were produced during the Renaissance. The costume suggests a date of about 1540.","physicalDescription":"This is a half-length figure of a man, bearded and in three-quarter length with his head turned slightly to his right. He wears a slashed tunic, buttoned down the front, with an open collar and belt round the waist, and holding a cap in his right hand. His left hand rests on his hip.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"stucco","id":"AAT14966"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Stucco","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2017KC9715","2018KY8862"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES383971"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bust","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Florence","id":"x28848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"second half of the 16th century","earliest":"1550-01-01","latest":"1600-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"75.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased from the Gigli-Camapna Collection, £30 in 1861.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bust, stucco, 'An Unknown Man', by an unknown artist, Italy, Florence, second half of 16th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1861. <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 4"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, Eric and Longhurst, Margaret H. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture. Text</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1932, p. 139"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, John. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Volume II: Text. Sixteenth to Twentieth Century</u>. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, p. 491"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"figure","id":"x36054"},{"text":"man","id":"x35641"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"The figure does not fall into any of the normal classes of portrait. Its free and frankly naturalistic modelling and its cutting at the level of the hips make it improbable as a preliminary model for a funeral statue in bronze or marble. It may have been made as part of one of the frequent but ephemeral festival decorations that were produced during the Renaissance. The costume suggests a date of about 1540.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["7623-1861"],"accessionNumberNum":"7623","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1861,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-11","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}