{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O39905"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O39905/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2012FJ1018/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2012FJ1018/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2012FJ1018","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2012FJ1017","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2012FJ1022","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2012FJ1025","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2012FJ1026","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O39905/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O39905","accessionNumber":"231-1876","objectType":"Bust","titles":[{"title":"Alessandro de'Medici, 1st Duke of Florence","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"This is a terracotta bust made by Cesare Brazzini in Florence, Italy, about 1875. This bust represents an imaginary portrait of Alessandro de Medici, 1st Duke of Florence. This type of imaginary historical portrait was fashionable in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although they were not generally intended to deceive at the time they were made, some busts must have later passed for contemporary portraits. In this case the grotesque mask on the front of the socle of the bust is an anachronism, being in the Florentine style of the later sixteenth century.","physicalDescription":"Bust in terracotta: imaginary portrait of Alessandro de Medici, 1st Duke of Florence. This bust represents a type of imaginary historical portrait which was fashionable in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although they were not generally intended to decieve at the time they were made, some busts must have later passed for contemporary portraits. In this case the grotesque mask on the front of the socle of the bust is an anachronism, being in the Florentine style of the later sixteenth century.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Brazzini, Cesare","id":"A3852"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Terracotta","categories":[{"text":"Black History","id":"THES48989"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2012FJ1018","2012FJ1017","2012FJ1022","2012FJ1025","2012FJ1026"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES341561"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bust","id":"AAT47457"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Florence","id":"x28848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1875","earliest":"1870-01-01","latest":"1879-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"44.32","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"33","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought in 1876 (Mr Fortnum). ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bust, terracotta, Alessandro de'Medici, 1st Duke of Florence, by Cesare Brazzini, Florence, ca. 1875","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Penny, Nicholas. <font -u>Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present day.</font> vol. I. Italian. Oxford, 1992, p. 21"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gentiline, Giancarlo. Giovanni Bastianini e i Falsi da Museo. <font -u>Gazzetta Antiquaria.</font> n. s. 3, 1988, p. 38."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<font -u>List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington, Acquired During the Year 1876, Arranged According to the Dates of Acquisition.</font> London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., p. 18"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["231-1876"],"accessionNumberNum":"231","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1876,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2000-05-25","availableToBook":false}}