Sculpture, Arithmetics and Architecture

1730 - 1740. Bronze.
Room 085

In this group, characteristic of the Venetian Bertós’s technical virtuosity, the allegories of the liberal arts are accompanied by personifications such as Perfection, Intellect, Truth and Valour. The last of these is carving a bust with armour and wig which has been identified as that of Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenberg, an important patron of the artist.

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Inventory number: E000505
Author: Francesco Bertós
Title: Sculpture, Arithmetics and Architecture
Date: 1730 - 1740
Technique: Cast
Medium: Bronze
Dimension: Weight: 53.800003 Kg; Height: 107 cm; Depth: 51 cm; Width: 45 cm
Provenance: Mr. Lionel Harris Collection, London; Acquired from Carolina Beamonte de R. Bustelo, Madrid, 1977.

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Hildburgh, W. L., Some Bronze Groups by Francesco Bertos, Apollo, XXVII, 1938, pp. 81-85 il. IV.

Salas, Xavier de, Museo del Prado: adquisiciones de 1969 a 1977, Patronato Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1978, pp. 92-101.

Coppel Areizaga, Rosario, Catálogo de la escultura de época moderna. Museo del Prado: siglos XVI-XVIII, Museo del Prado; Fundación Marcelino Botín, Madrid, 1998, pp. 113,114, n. 30.

Avery, C., The triumph of motion. Francesco Bertos (1678-1741) and the Art of Sculpture. Catalogué raisonné, U. Allemandi & Co., Turin, 2008, pp. 18; 73-86; 214-215, n. 109.

Ekserdjian, D., 'Francesco Bertós. Sculpture, Arthmetic and Architecture'. En:, Bronze, 2012, pp. 220, 225 n.129.

Mena Marqués, M.; Albarrán, V., La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, folleto, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 51 n.227-n.228.

Maurer, Gudrun, Goya: lo bello y lo recóndito, La belleza encerrada: de Fra Angelico a Fortuny, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2013, pp. 353.

Mena Marqués, M.; Albarrán, V., Azúa, F. de, La belleza cautiva. Pequeños tesoros del Museo del Prado = La bellesa captiva. Petits tresors del Museo del Prado, Museo del Prado - Obra Social "La Caixa", Barcelona, 2014, pp. 179.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. s/n.
Adquiridas a Doña Carolina Beamonte en 2.100.000 pts. Fco. Bertos: Tres esculturas: "La escultura, El Drama y la Guerra". [Aparece anotado en el inventario entre los asientos 1947 y 1948, pero no se le adjudicó número]