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- Title
Confirmed: Capitoline Wolf is Medieval (Romanesque), not Etruscan.
- Abstract
The article confirms that the discovered bronze sculpture of a she-wolf nursing the infants Romulus and Remus is medieval. It notes that the sculpture is not the masterpiece of Etruscan metalwork. It adds that the Capitoline Wolf only enters the historical record in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated it to the Roman people. It recalls that German art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann was the one who classified the wolf as Etruscan in his 1974 masterpience "The History of Art in Antiquity."
- Subjects
MEDIEVAL sculpture; SIXTUS IV, Pope, 1414-1484; MEDIEVAL art; WINCKELMANN, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768; MEDIEVAL architecture; MEDIEVAL bronzes; ETRUSCAN bronzes; ETRUSCAN sculpture; ETRUSCAN art
- Publication
Peregrinations, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1554-8678
- Publication type
Article