La Zingarella
Gypsy Girl
ArtistNicolas Cordier
Yearsometime between 1607 and 1612[1]
Dimensions140 cm (55 in)
LocationGalleria Borghese, Rome
Coordinates41°54′52″N 12°29′31″E / 41.914358°N 12.491895°E / 41.914358; 12.491895

La Zingarella or Gypsy Girl is a 140 centimetres (55 in) tall statue of Diana,[2] a combination of an ancient body with additions commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese[3] and executed by Nicolas Cordier, between 1607 and 1612. The additions, a head and the extremities of the body, were in bronze, and white and grey marble. It is on display in Room X in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy.[3]

Description

This statue is a hybrid of an ancient grey marble torso, and Cordier's white marble and gilded bronze. Recent restoration, which removed a thick black patina added to tone down the statue to suit 19th-century taste, revealed a gold clasp.[1] Its assembly from ancient and modern elements makes it an exotic, almost orientalizing work.[2]

Eagles and dragons decorate the hem of the statue's gown.[1] The gown is knotted at the shoulders.[4] The figure is smiling.[1] The statue's finger points out, as if to acknowledge the viewer. The statue in the Galleria Borghese is the most celebrated version of La Zingarella; however, there is another version of the statue by Nicolas Cordier in the Louvre.[5] Visconti described the statue as Diana, detto volgarmente la Zingarella.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gypsy Girl (Zingarella) by CORDIER, Nicolas". Wga.hu. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  2. 1 2 Marvin, Miranda (2008). The language of the muses: the ... – Miranda Marvin, J. Paul Getty Museum – Google Boeken. p. 95. ISBN 9780892368068. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  3. 1 2 "Picasa Web Albums – Agentia de comuni... – META- SCULPTU". 2001-08-15. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  4. ↑ Bindman, D.; Gates, H.L.; Dalton, K.C.C. (2010). The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 173. ISBN 9780674052611. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  5. ↑ "AN ANGLO-ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BUST OF 'LA ZINGARA', her hair in a delicate plaited chignon, crowned by a bejewelled tiara and veil, the veil wound under her chin, wearing a tunic and cloak, inscribed on the socle VESTA, on turned marble socle, early 19th Century". Christies.com. 1992-07-07. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  6. ↑ Paul, C.; Campitelli, A.; Getty Research Institute (2000). Making a Prince's Museum: Drawings for the Late-eighteenth-century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese. Getty Research Institute. p. 123. ISBN 9780892365395. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
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