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Neptune and Triton

  • Type: Sculpture

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Object


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Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1622/00/00 Cardinal Bishop, Alessandro Peretti, commissions "Neptune and Triton" from Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the garden of the Villa Montalto (lost) in Rome.
1622/03/00 Gian Lorenzo Bernini Sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini begins carving "Neptune and Triton" for Cardinal Alessandro Peretti-Montalto.
1623/02/00 Gian Lorenzo Bernini Sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini completes "Neptune and Triton". It is to be the centerpiece of a system of fountains and cascades situated at the upper end of a large oval fishpond at the Villa Montalto in Rome (lost).
1786/00/00 English art dealer Thomas Jenkins buys "Neptune and Triton" from the Villa Montalto (lost) in Rome.
1790/00/00 Joshua Reynolds Owner Renown painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, buys "Neptune and Triton".
1857/00/00 Neptune and Triton spends nearly a century in the Earls of Yarborough house (lost), 17 Arlington St, London. "I may mention a very spirited work by Bernini - the statue of Neptune ... executed with the greatest decision, only with the chisel." - G Waagen
1906/00/00 Gianlorenzo Bernini's "Neptune and Triton" finds a home in the gardens of Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire. Brocklesby Park Lincolnshire
1950/00/00 The Victoria and Albert Museum, with the assistance of the National Art-Collections Fund, saves for the Nation a weathered marble statue of "Neptune and Triton" from the gardens of Brocklesby Park, in Lincolnshire. Victoria And Albert Museum London

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Particulars for Neptune and Triton:
Sight Category Object
Art Type Sculpture
Historic Use Work of Art




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