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"Antique" Candlestick in the Form of a Man   (  )
Artist	Peter Vischer the younger (German, 1487-1528)
Title	"Antique" Candlestick in the Form of a Man
Description	English: This nude, bearded man holds a base for a candle socket in each of his outstretched hands, as in the etched illustration dated 1700 of a nearly identical "antique" Roman bronze figure in a collection of antiquities in Amsterdam. To the modern eye, the characterization of face and beard, proportions, and stance do not suggest ancient Greece or Rome but Germany around 1525, especially Nuremberg. The candlestick may be by the sculptor Peter Vischer the Younger, who, like his contemporary Albrecht Dürer, was involved in humanist circles there. While the nudity of the figure reflects the new, humanist respect for the beauty of the human body that looks back to the bronze statuettes of antiquity, the function of the figure is comparable to similar German candlesticks based on the figure of a soldier with outstretched arms. There was clearly no intention to deceive the initial purchaser, and it was only in the following century that such a figure could be mistaken for an antique. The base-made in the style favored in Padua in the mid 1500s-is also by Vischer, who had studied there.
Date	circa 1525 date QS:P571,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (Renaissance era QS:P2348,Q4692 )
Medium	fire-gilt on bronze
Dimensions	34.5 cm (13.5 in)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	54.29
Place of creation	Nuremberg, Germany
Object history	Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history	Nuremberg, A Renaissance City. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin. 1983-1984. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum. The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburg. 1993-1994.
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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