{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O70872"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70872/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2013GU3109/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2013GU3109/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2013GU3109","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2013GU3110","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2013GU3111","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2013GU3112","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2013GU3113","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AV6391","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AV0928","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O70872/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O70872","accessionNumber":"A.78-1970","objectType":"Bust","titles":[{"title":"Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"Alessandro Algardi made this sketch model in preparation for a marble bust of Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia (1554-1605), now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence. Algardi left the marble version unfinished at his death in 1654. This suggests that this model was one of his last works. An assistant, possibly Domenico Guidi, subsequently completed the marble, which was owned by the Cardinal's niece, the Marchesa Rondanini. The marble lacks the vivacity of this terracotta, the handling of which is particularly remarkable given that the sitter died nearly 50 years before it was modelled. Algardi presumably based his work on an existing portrait.\r\n\r\nThe Cardinal, wearing a biretta (a three-cornered hat) and mozetta (a short hooded cape), is shown turning the pages of a book. This pose alludes to his written works, which included a treatise on the Immaculate Conception. This belief held that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of the stain of original sin. It later became a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. Cracks are clearly visible throughout the terracotta, which were caused by firing the clay too quickly.","physicalDescription":"Bust, terracotta.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Algardi, Alessandro","id":"A6711"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"terracotta","id":"AAT10669"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Terracotta","categories":[{"text":"sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2013GU3109","2013GU3110","2013GU3111","2013GU3112","2013GU3113","2006AV6391","2006AV0928"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"7","id":"THES263054"},"free":"","case":"CA8","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bust Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Rome","id":"x29106"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1650","earliest":"1645-01-01","latest":"1654-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with Art Fund support and the Horn Bequest","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"830","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"810","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"512","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measured by Conservation, 2012.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought from the Heim Gallery with the assistance of the National Art- Collections Fund.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bust, terracotta, Alessandro Algardi, Cardinal Paolo Emilio Zacchia, c.1654","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bacchi, Andrea. <u>Scultura del '600 a Roma</u>, Milan, 1996, illus. no 70, p. 772."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Williamson, Paul, ed. <u>European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum</u> London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996. pp.134 and 191, ISBN 1851771883."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Honour, Hugh, 'Review of Jennifer Montagu's Alessandro Algardi' in <u>New York Review of Books</u>, 24/04/1986, p. 25."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Montagu, Jennifer, <u>Alessandro Algardi</u>, New Haven and London, 1985, I, pp. 170-71, figs. 179, 191, II, cat. no. 182.B.I. pl. 177."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Avery, Charles. <u>Fingerprints of the artist. European Terracotta from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections</u>, Washington, 1981, p. 24."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessey, John. 'Some newly acquired Italian Sculptures: A portrait sketch by Algardi', <u>V&A Yearbook</u>, IV, 1974. pp. 38-46."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Heimbürger Ravalli, Minna. <u>Alessandro Algardi, Scultore</u>, Rome, 1973, pl. XLVIII, cat 32 a, p. 110."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Martin, Thomas. <u>Alessandro Vittoria and the portrait bust in Renaissance Venice</u>, Oxford, 1998, p., 86, pl. 117."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Zacchia, Paolo Emilio (Cardinal)","id":"N1570"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"biretta","id":"AAT210420"},{"text":"cape","id":"AAT46140"},{"text":"book","id":"AAT28051"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"CARDINAL PAOLO EMILIO ZACCHIA (1554-1605)\r\nItalian (Rome); about 1650\r\nTerracotta\r\nBy Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654)\r\n\r\nThis sketch model in terracotta was made in preparation for a marble bust of the cardinal now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. The marble version was unfinished at Algardi’s death and the sketch model is probably one of his last works. The conviction and vivacity of the portrait is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that it is posthumous, the sitter having died nearly fifty years before. The Likeness was based on painted portraits. After working briefly at the Gonzaga court at Mantua, Algardi moved to Rome in1625. In a few years he established himself as a leading sculptor, second only Gianlorenzo Bernini.\r\n","date":{"text":"1993 - 2011","earliest":"1993-01-01","latest":"2011-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["A.78-1970"],"accessionNumberNum":"78","accessionNumberPrefix":"A","accessionYear":1970,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN9844","2019LU2064","2019LV1581"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-24","recordCreationDate":"2002-11-27","availableToBook":false}}